Excerpt: Such interventions variously ‘triangulate’ historical analysis in Australia, through a focus on historicising one of three configurations in particular, encounters and relationships between non-Anglo/ethnicised settlers and Indigenous peoples. Of the three dynamics of cultural relations and interactions in settler colonial societies – the other two being relationships between Anglo settlers and Indigenous peoples and between Anglo settlers and non-Anglo/ethnicised settlers – the non-Anglo migrant and Aboriginal Australia configuration has been the least examined. Yet, as this themed issue showcases, focusing on this aspect of the triangular dynamic of Australian colonial history reveals numerous connections in which histories of empire, colonialism, migration, race, labour, and identity intersect and overlap.