The Australian WarsIt is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. However, there are few memorials marking these first, domestic wars. The Australian Wars was conceived by Rachel Perkins following her award winning documentary series produced by Blackfella Films for SBS and edited along with Stephen Gapps,