Editing Frontier (section)

== Australia ==
{{see also|European exploration of Australia|Australian frontier wars|Outback}}

[[File:StateLibQld 1 113072 Bushman with his dog and horse outside a humpy, Hughenden district^, 1910-1920.jpg|thumb|Australian bushman with his dog and horse, c. 1910]]
The term "frontier" was frequently used in [[colonial Australia]] in the meaning of country that borders the unknown or uncivilised, the boundary, border country, the borders of civilisation, or as the land that forms the furthest extent of what was frequently termed "the inside" or "settled" districts.<ref>See e.g. ''Parliamentary Debate'' April 14 ''Legislative Assembly of NSW'' (''Australian'' April 14, 1848, p.4 Robinson)</ref> The "outside" was another term frequently used in colonial Australia, this term seemingly{{original research inline|date=August 2016}} covered not only the frontier but the districts beyond. Settlers at the frontier thus frequently referred to themselves as "the outsiders" or "outside residents" and to the area in which they lived as "the outside districts". At times one might hear the "frontier" described as "the outside borders".<ref>see e.g. ''Sydney Morning Herald'' June 6, 1851 p.2g; ''South Australian Register'',  ''Moreton Bay Courier'' Feb 16, 1861, p2 and 2 April 1861, p.3 re 'The Native Police'; see Queensland Parliamentary Debate (Attorney-General Pring) (''Brisbane Courier'', July 27, 1861, p5); Queensland Parliamentary Debate 20 August 1863; ''Brisbane Courier'', Aug 22, 1863 (Editorial).</ref> However the term "frontier districts" was seemingly{{original research inline|date=August 2016}} used predominantly in the early Australian colonial newspapers whenever dealing with skirmishes between black and white in northern [[New South Wales]] and [[Queensland]], and in newspaper reports from [[South Africa]], whereas it was seemingly not so commonly used when dealing with affairs in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[South Australia]] and southern New South Wales. The use of the word "frontier" was thus frequently connected to descriptions of frontier violence, as in a letter printed in the ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' in December 1850 which described murder and carnage at the northern frontier and calling for the protection of the settlers saying: "...nothing but a strong body of [[Native Police]] will restore and keep order in the frontier districts, and as the squatters are taxed for the purpose of such protection".<ref>''Sydney Morning Herald'' Dec 24, 1850, p.3s.</ref>