This constant war
By Hugh Riminton on Sunday Extra
Stephen Gapps' book, 'The Sydney Wars', tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians around the greater Sydney region.
It is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817.
Stephen Gapps - author, historian, Curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 by Stephen Gapps (New South Books, 2018)