In episode thirty two of Frontier War Stories, Boe speaks with Professor Lyndall Ryan. Professor Ryan is a  historian of violence on the Australian colonial frontier specialising in the period 1788-1850 and the leader of the team behind the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map. Frontier War Stories is produced, written and hosted by Boe Spearim Additional editing support from Awesome Black ..read more

In episode Nineteen Boe Yarn's with historian Ray Kerkhove. We yarn about the many methods of communication Aboriginal people used while fighting on the frontier, Ray also tells us about some of the new interesting things he has learnt about Aboriginal resistance on the frontier ..read more

Episode thirteen of Frontier War Stories is broken up into two parts, this is Part 1 of Dundalli Day. In Part 1 Boe yarns with Libby Connors about the 5th of January 1855 the day Dundalli was was hung at a site which is now The Brisbane GPO on Queen Street.   Libby Connors is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland. In 2015 Connors received the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier.   ..read more

In episode Ten of Frontier War Stories, Boe yarns with Professor Lyndall Ryan who is an academic and historian from the University of Newcastle. We chat about Professor Lyndall Ryan's earlier work which was on Frontier conflict in the 1820s and 1830s between Aboriginal people and British in New South Wales and Tasmania ..read more

In episode Twenty Seven of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Ryan Stewart who is a history teacher and a PhD candidate from the University of Newcastle, the research he is doing is based on the Darkinjung resistance and conflict in the Central Coast of NSW ..read more

In Episode Seven of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Historian & Curator Stephen Gapps, President of the History Council of New South Wales and the author of The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony, 1788-1817 ..read more

In episode Twenty Four Boe yarns with Angus Murray Wiradjuri PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. Since episode Six of FWS Angus has changed his approach to his PhD in this episode we find out that Angus is now focusing on tactics used by Aboriginal people in frontier conflict on his country the Wiradjuri nation ..read more

In episode Twenty Two Boe yarns with singer songwriter and teacher Paddy McHugh, we talk about a song he wrote titled Gins Leap. many years ago at the station I still work at I remember hearing a song for the first time with lyrics like this "On the Kamilaroi highway near the town of Boggabri There is a little truck stop there most travellers pass by But occasionally the weary or those who need to take a leak Will stop beside this spot by the name of Gins Leap, Now Gins Leap is a clifface a mighty wall of stone Left high above the plain by a volcano years ago There is a little sign there tucke ..read more

In the Third episode of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Julie Dowling an artist & activist who for about 18 years has been painting Aboriginal Warriors such as Wayler, Dundalli, Yagan, Pemulwuy, Musquito, Windradine and many more. Julie Dowling was born in Subiaco and is Warida kinship, Badimaya First Nation from Western Australia. Julie Dowling identifies culturally & politically as a Badimaya First Nation woman not as an 'Australian' Aboriginal and is a Fine Artist ..read more

In episode Twenty of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns Libby Connors author of Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier. Billy Barlow Gubbi Gubbi headman and resistance leader, was born in the 1820s, the decade when British officials authorised the invasion and occupation of what would become the city of Brisbane. At some point during the 1840s Billy Barlow had joined Dundalli and the Aboriginal men of Bribie Island in their fight against the European invaders. Bribie Islanders were at the centre of the Aboriginal resistance around Brisbane from 1843 ..read more