Lecture 4

Question 1

The History Wars revolve around the interpretation of British colonisation of Australia, particularly its impact on ___________________.

Answer 1

Indigenous Australians

Question 2

Bill Stanner’s 1968 Boyer lecture highlighted “the great Australian silence” which ignored the extent of the impact on Indigenous Australians in favor of a ‘___________________’ narrative.

Answer 2

Triumphalist

Question 3

According to Henry Reynolds’ The Other Side of the Frontier (1981), estimates of frontier casualties include Indigenous: ___________________ killed and Europeans: ___________________ killed.

Answer 3

20,000-30,000

Question 4

Geoffrey Blainey criticized the “___________________ view” of Australian history in the 1990s.

Answer 4

Black armband

Question 5

Keith Windschuttle’s The Fabrication of Aboriginal History (2002) criticized historians’ reliance on oral evidence and downplayed the extent of violence, fatalities, and negative ___________________.

Answer 5

Impact

Question 6

Introduced disease was the quickest and biggest killer among Indigenous Australians, as they were considered a ‘___________________’ population.

Answer 6

Virgin Soil

Question 7

The Appin Massacre, ordered by Governor Macquarie in April 1816, resulted in the deaths of ___________________ Aboriginal people.

Answer 7

14

Question 8

John Batman made a treaty with First Nations groups around ___________________, but it was declared void by Governor Bourke in 1835.

Answer 8

Melbourne Area

Question 9

Native Police units utilized a ‘divide and conquer’ approach, particularly on the ___________________ frontier.

Answer 9

Queensland

Question 10

andamarra, born in 1870, led retaliatory attacks against settler-colonists in the ___________________.

Answer 10

Kimberleys, WA

Question 11

Slavery in Australia was more endemic than previously thought, particularly in ___________________.

Answer 11

North Queensland sugar cane plantations

Question 12

The “Stolen Generations” involved the removal of Indigenous children from their families, with the goal of ___________________.

Answer 12

Assimilation

Question 13

The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for ___________________, ___________________, and ___________________.

Answer 13

Voice; truth-telling; treaty

Question 14

The recent 2023 Referendum focused on ___________________.

Answer 14

“Voice to Parliament”

Question 15

The last recorded frontier violence in central Australia occurred in the ___________________.

Answer 15

1930S

Question 16

The Economic warfare tactic involved First Nations people raiding livestock and destroying crops for ___________________.

Answer 16

Survival

Question 17

The Wirrayaraay people of Gimilaraay Nation were involved in the ___________________ massacre in North NSW.

Answer 17

Myall Creek

Question 18

The Native Police units were active particularly on the Queensland frontier, utilizing a ‘divide and conquer’ approach led by ___________________.

Answer 18

UK-born officers

Question 19

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody took place from ___________________.

Answer 19

1987-1991

Question 20

The recent 2023 Referendum focused on “Voice to Parliament” and aimed to ___________________.

Answer 20

include Aboriginal people as people

Question 21

Aboriginal people are over-represented in arrests and incarceration, making up _________________ of the prison population.

Answer 21

27%

Question 22

The Northern Territory Intervention, which occurred from 2007 to 2012, involved the army being sent in to ‘control’ local Aboriginal people and required the suspension of the ___________________.

Answer 22

Racial Discrimination Act

Question 23

The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for ___________________ as part of its recommendations.

Answer 23

Treaty

Question 24

John Batman’s treaty with First Nations groups around Melbourne was declared void by ___________________.

Answer 24

Governor Bourke

Question 24

The Federal Inquiry into separation took place from 1995 to 1997, resulting in the formal report titled ___________________.

Answer 24

Bringing them Home

Question 25

The Aboriginal Protection Board was established in ___________________.

Answer 25

1883

Question 26

The ‘Killing Times’ in the Kimberley, WA, occurred in the ___________________.

Answer 26

1890s

Question 27

The Commonwealth government’s attempt to assimilate First Nations peoples took place from the ___________________.

Answer 27

1900s-1970s