'Blood on the Wattle records the massacres, maltreatment and spread of the white men's diseases that resulted in these astounding figures. It describes all of the major massacres of Australian Aborigines which have occurred since the arrival of the first fleet in 1788. From the early attacks on the Aborigines of the Sydney basin through the long history of the violence along the frontier to the final massacres in the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia in the late 1920s, the book tells of the plight of the Aborigines who were killed by the gun, the sword, disease and poisoning. It is not an exercise in retrospective guilt, but rather it aims to accurately document an integral, but often ignored, part of Australia's history.' Sourced: Publishers note (Sighted 08/04/2009)
