About this episode

Anita Heiss discusses her novel Dirrayawadha, inspired by stories from the Wiradjuri people during the frontier wars in Bathurst.

Writer Anita Heiss has based her novel Dirrayawadha on stories from the 1800s during the frontier wars in Bathurst, when martial law was declared.

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