It is a day of mourning. This was as much to try and protect the Aboriginal people from reprisals as to open up new lands for the colonists. There were several reported massacres at Florida Station. This kind of hysterical anthropomorphism discredits sensible environmental concern. John Durack and his cousin John Wallace Durack of the Ord River pastoral station were allegedly ambushed by a group of Aboriginal men about 97 kilometres from their camp. My objection to the controlled (RSPCA) killings is that the meat was wasted. Native police being trained to track and kill other Aboriginal people in far north Queensland in the late 19th century. In many ways, the Parsley Massacre remains a historical footnote in the country, seen as an uncomfortable reminder of a brutal past. Two white men were killed and one wounded. The Royal Commission found that 11 people had been massacred and the bodies burned. The Aboriginal men retaliated by throwing their spears and, according to one police report, two men who appeared to be the ringleaders were shot and killed. John Durack was fatally speared. Yet probably Queensland is the only state which can provide material useful for the calculation of casualty estimates, the reason being that Queensland ran a government-funded force for 50 years, leaving us a small yet significant sequential series of records of conflict per police patrol.. This led to the deaths of over 200 Aboriginal people including all the women and children. Copyright may differ amongst site authors. The Myall Creek massacre near Gwydir River, in the central New South Wales district of Namoi, involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed Indigenous Australians by ten white Europeans and one black African on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near Bingara in northern New South Wales. Hunting grounds were all over so not something that would instigate an attack. 1838 Faithfull Massacre Benalla -In April of that year a party of some 18 men, in the employ of George Faithful and William Faithfull, were searching out new land to the south of Wangaratta. Such truths of Australian ecological present remain excluded from the Australian school curriculum.
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