Australia; a delightful country with delightful people, and probably a delightful past. Perhaps not. It has often been argued that the Australian people have an old forgotten and unrecorded past. A past that greatly effected the indigenous population of this land. Author and Historian, Henry Reynolds, has religiously been trying to persuade the Australian People of this through his array of novels, including most importantly, ‘Why weren’t we told?’. It is an honest account of the realisation that his generation were raised with a distorted perception of our past. Reynolds account abolishes the fable of our countries ‘peaceful’ history. But the main focus for this presentation is how this book, related with an episode of ‘Catalyst’. This episode discusses the discovery of a ceremonially buried Aboriginal skeleton named ‘Tooraleman’, and whether or not this man was killed through frontier violence, an often-discussed event of our past. These two texts are both displaying the same connotation; that Australia has a disregarded and unexplored history that we all must know. This presentation will discuss the extreme use of Ethos and Logos and how it is used to persuade us, the readers. Ethos is defined as ‘an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.’ This episode of Catalyst appeals to Ethos with its large variety of experts to help uncover this ‘murder-mystery’ of Tooraleman. These include an Archaeologist, Anthropologist, Historian Henry Reynolds, a persuasive narrator and Badger Bates, an elder of the Baakandji people, and the founder of Tooraleman. Each one of these people helps to appeal to Ethos, as each expert creates a sense of credibility and merit to the situation. Dr Michael Westaway, an expert in Aboriginal Archaeology, believes that the death of Tooraleman is due to Frontier Violence, a disputed event of our history. The narrator, Mark H