Australian historian Richard Broome takes a look at the extensive history of Indigenous Australians, examining the wide-reaching consequences of the European theft of their land from the 1780s onward.

Indigenous Australians have populated the continent of Australia for around 50,000 years, settling the land far earlier than Homo Sapiens settled in some areas of Europe.

Yet from the 1780s, British colonization of Australia ruptured Indigenous societies. Indigenous land was stolen, and more than two centuries of conflict ensued, which continues to this day.

In his 2020 book Aboriginal Australians, emeritus professor of history Richard Broome dissects the extent of this conflict.

Charting the history of Indigenous Australians from before European contact to their current fight for social and political justice, Broome helps us understand how deep these fissures run and why the argument has long been over land above all else.