Conflict in Van Diemen's Land is a 1945 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd.
[1] It concerned Governor Arthur's war against Tasmanian Aboriginals in colonial Tasmania.
According to ABC Weekly "In 1824 there was much rejoicing in Hobart Town when Governor Arthur arrived, but gaiety was shortlived.
He stifled freedom of the press, imprisoned the editor who dared to criticise the Government.
Theme of Miss Shepherd's trenchant play is that free peoples—be they black or white —will never submit to the power of a tyrant.