Episodes (3)

Part One: 1770-1835
S01E01 · Part One: 1770-1835

Mar 05, 1987

Soldier/Administrator David Collins sailed to Sydney with the first fleet expecting a few natives on the sea coast who would run away. The British were confident they could win over the remaining Aborigines with 'amity and kindness' but as violence escalated Collins became the first official to acknowledge that Blacks and Whites were locked in a grim struggle for the land. When Collins was sent to Tasmania to set up a second settlement Tasmania too became embroiled in a "Black War". The fighting ended only after a verbal treaty acknowledged some Aboriginal rights in ...

Part Two: 1830-1860
S01E02 · Part Two: 1830-1860

Mar 12, 1987

By 1830 there had been a dramatic moral shift in Britain as the British public were stirred by an anti slavery campaign. Missionaries and humanitarians began to take up the cause of native peoples in the Empire. The official message to Australia was that Aborigines had legal rights as subjects of the crown. However this new mood did not go down well on the frontier and horrific massacres took place in the bush. When seven white killers were arrested, tried and hanged the sustained white backlash exposed the humanitarian mood as fragile and short lived. By 1860 a new, ...

Part Three: 1860-1938
S01E03 · Part Three: 1860-1938

Mar 19, 1987

When the land wars moved north to Queensland the Aborigines resisted and after two infamous aboriginal attacks, vigilante bands and the Native Police set out to clear the land of blacks. An estimated ten thousand Aborigines were shot dead and the colonial government turned a blind eye. Towards the end of the century governments across Australia began what they believed was a mopping up operation. Officials adopted a new fad - Social Darwinism and assumed Aborigines would die out as a natural consequence of competition with the white race. The next fifty years saw ...

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Frontier Season 1 (1987) is released on Mar 05, 1987. Watch Frontier online - the English Drama TV series from Australia. Frontier is directed by Bruce Belsham,Victoria Pitt and created by Bruce Belsham with Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh.

As know as:

Frontier

Countries:

Australia

Language:

English

Production Companies:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

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ABC

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