'frontier conflict' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a conflict between two societies or groups that are located on the boundary between each other's territories. For example: "The frontier conflict between the two nations had been brewing for many years."
But he is said to be intransigent on reflecting frontier conflict.
This, despite the Australian and British archives being filled with references to the frontier conflict as "war".
A tense frontier conflict between whites and Indians has smoldered there since the reserve was first proposed in 1993.
As the site's heritage listing notes, it was "the first and last attempt by the colonial administration to use the law to control frontier conflict".
In September last year, I asked the memorial why it did not depict frontier conflict and if Nelson would consider changing the status quo.
The government has just spent $600m celebrating the centenary of Anzac and committed another $500m to the Australian War Memorial, which does not commemorate frontier conflict.
Historically, the region was witness to numerous frontier conflicts between the Spanish and the Portuguese and the struggles of both with hostile Indians.
"I asked Dr Brendan Nelson following his AWM directorship appointment – 'When will the AWM acknowledge the frontier conflicts and put a memorial to Aboriginal people on Anzac parade?' Dr Nelson was adamant that the AWM does not acknowledge the 'frontier conflicts' as war and won't acknowledge Aboriginal participation in war," Mortimer said.
In his book Forgotten War, Henry Reynolds notes the clear consensus among military historians: the frontier conflicts between colonists and Indigenous Australians – during which tens of thousands died – constituted a war.
Allen plays down the ways in which the Southern strategy — and previous frontier conflicts — led the British into a harder kind of war while encouraging the patriots to identify Africans and Indians as their enemies, along with any and all white men who did not swear allegiance to the new states.
No. Commemoration of Australian involvement in other peoples' wars has eclipsed any appropriate official remembrance of the Australian frontier conflicts that, by some credible estimates killed many more (mainly Indigenous) people than the 60,000-plus Australians who died in world war one.
