Congratulations to Stephen Gapps for the publication of Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance: The Bathurst War, 1822-1824 (NewSouth, 2021). ‘Gudyarra traces the co-ordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradyuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of colonists and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradyuri women and children, Gapps provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradyuri resistance.’