Uncovering Australia’s shameful history of frontier massacres

The final findings of the first national project to record mass killings on the Australian frontier have been released. This research shows that conflict was widespread and often involved police and government forces in a deliberate attempt to eradicate Aboriginal people and Aboriginal resistance to the country’s colonisation. Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam talks to Laura Murphy-Oates about the key things this project has uncovered and the need for justice in the wake of these discoveries