Robert Hill is at the forefront of those powerfully challenging the stories concocted by government-funded groups who are furiously rewriting Australian history. A curse on those institutions that ought to defend Australia but are collapsing like a house of cards. Australians need someone like Pauline Hanson to have the guts not only to defend the truth but to stop the colossal amounts of money going to the fat cats of the Aboriginal industry.
indig giles
The ‘Wars’ That Weren’t
Robert Hill, Quadrant, Jun 23 2026
Reports and Senate Estimates evidence suggest there is a “Frontier Wars” display being developed within the Australian War Memorial’s pre-1914 treatment, with suggestions that the relevant pre-1914 gallery space may be around 400 square metres. The precise public plan remains difficult to identify, which is itself part of the problem.
There is no publicly available record that explains the evidentiary basis for the inclusion of such a gallery and its contravention of the AWM charter. No clear public criteria have been produced. No public account explains how the Memorial proposes to distinguish war from massacre, reprisal, murder, policing, punitive expedition, settler violence, food raiding, stock spearing or localised tribal conflict.
The War Memorial has attempted to justify the language of war on its own website. But in doing so it avoids the central problem. The Australian frontier was not a war merely because later writers called it one, or because violence occurred over a long period. On examination, the frontier does not meet the very tests the Memorial invokes: organised political violence, military purpose, identifiable belligerents, command structures, campaigns, warlike conduct against armed authority, or recognisable military outcomes.
The result is predictable. Something that was not Australian in any national military sense, and was not war in any ordinary military sense, is now to be memorialised without clear public criteria, without visible evidentiary justification, and almost certainly in a selective ideological form.
The Australian War Memorial is hosting a two-day conference on September 17/18 titled Imperialism and Resistance: Australia’s First Wars. It marks a profound institutional shift. The frontier is no longer being presented as a contested historical question. It is being framed as a settled conclusion. The conference appears designed to legitimise the illegitimate: to give institutional cover to a claim the Memorial has not publicly justified, and which sits uneasily with its statutory purpose of Australian military remembrance.
The title itself does the work: Australia’s First Wars.
Not frontier violence. Not colonial conflict. Not dispossession. Not massacre, reprisal, police action, local resistance or criminal violence.
“Wars.”