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The Australian Wars

The ABR Podcast 

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PPPP 2025

2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Shortlist

Read by the poets 

This week on The ABR Podcast we feature the 2025 Peter Porter Prize shortlisted poems, as read by the five poets, published in the January-February issue of ABR.

 

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This week’s ABR Podcast features Anne Rutherford’s review of the new SBS miniseries The Australian Wars, published in the November issue of ABR. Directed by Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman Rachel Perkins, the series is an attempt to recast Australian frontier conflict by posing new questions. Echoing Perkins, Rutherford asks: ‘Why is the extreme violence of the frontier not recognised as war?’ and ‘Why is the death of an estimated 100,000 people on the frontier, both black and white, not acknowledged and memorialised?’ Listen to the ABR Podcast here.

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