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Question: What were some of the biggest massacres towards the aboriginals of Australia!?
Hi, i need help with my Australian History assigment!.

I need to find out the names of some majour massacres that happened in australia were lots of aboriginals were killed!.!.!.

i only want to know of masacres in AUSTRALIA, and i have only one that i am aware of!. This is the "Myall Creek Massacre"

What others are there!?!?!?


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On 10 June 1838 a group of white settlers brutally murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Creek Station in northern New South Wales, near Bingara!. Seven of the killers were tried and hanged!.
Massacres by non-indigenous Australians were still carried out, unpunished, during our grandparents’ (and for some of us, our parents’) lifetimes!. In the Western Australian ‘Forrest River Massacre’ of 1926, several men were killed and cremated while their women were forced to watch!. Public opinion proved too strong an obstacle against an inquiry that would bring the killers to trial!. Two years later in the Northern Territory, Aboriginal men, women and children were indiscriminately shot in what was to be called the ‘Coniston Massacre’!. An Adelaide newspaper called one of the ringleaders – a bloke by the name of ‘Murray’ - the ‘Hero of Central Australia’!. Walbiri tribesmen claim almost one hundred dead!. After court hearings, Murray was quietly removed to a distant location, where he died in the 1960’s of old age!. A lone survivor named ‘Bullfrog’ was still alive in the 1970’s!.
http://www!.asgmwp!.net/RobinGrillearticle!.!.!.

Massacres of Aborigines were occurring quite openly and regularly in and around Fraser Island and Maryborough!. In most cases “white volunteers” were assisted or led by the murderous Maryborough based Native Police in these sorties!. Many massacres of Aborigines which resulted from a number of confrontations have been documented in a paper by Raymond Evans and Jan Walker (Occasional Papers in Anthropology No 8 University of Queensland, 1977)!. They noted: “Following these engagements, the Aborigines withdrew to Fraser Island which, according to the whites, they seemed to be using as a convenient natural fortress, for the avoidance of European reprisal raids!.” This led to considerable planning by white settlers to invade Fraser Island and remove “35 named Aborigines accused by European settlers of ‘murder and felony’ ”!.

On Christmas Eve 1851 Commandant Walker, his officers and 24 of his infamous Native Police, supported by some local mounted squatters and sailors sworn in as “special constables”, set out to arrest some Aborigines for which there were warrants!. They spent eight days on Fraser Island carrying out what was euphemistically described as “examinations” of Aborigines!. Subsequent reports indicate that this was a pretence for a series of massacres which occurred between Christmas Eve and 3 January!. Aboriginal oral history reports the biggest massacre was at Indian Head!. It may have been seen as a little “silly season” sport for the squatters or a little hunting expedition over the Christmas holiday season!. Evans and Walker note that the official sketchy report strains credulity because the commandant let the Native Police out alone “to pursue hostile blacks” simply because he was too footsore to accompany them!. The “Moreton Bay Courier” subsequently described this as a “jaunt” covered with “extraordinary secrecy” and that “rumours are afloat that natives were driven in to the sea, and there kept as long as daylight or life lasted…”
http://www!.fido!.org!.au/education/Aborigi!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

hello

interesting question !.!.!. im sure that it will offend the vast majority of australians who still believe the aborigines were so grateful that the white man came and brought them civilization and long life/prosperity

there are many many many massacres listed :-

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/List_of_mas!.!.!.

these are just a few of the crimes commited in victoria

1840 - Nuntin- unknown number killed by Angus McMillan's men

1840 - Boney Point - "Angus McMillan and his men took a heavy toll of Aboriginal lives"

1841 - Butchers Creek - 30-35 shot by Angus McMillan's men

1841 - Maffra - unknown number shot by Angus McMillan's men

1842 - Skull Creek - unknown number killed

1842 - Bruthen Creek - "hundreds killed"

1843 - Warrigal Creek - between 60 and 180 shot by Angus McMillan and his men

1844 - Maffra - unknown number killed

1846 - South Gippsland - 14 killed

1846 - Snowy River - 8 killed by Captain Dana and the Aboriginal Police

1846-47 - Central Gippsland - 50 or more shot by armed party hunting for a white woman supposedly held by Aborigines; no such woman was ever found!.

1850 - East Gippsland - 15-20 killed

1850 - Murrindal - 16 poisoned

etc etc etc etc etc

the last recorded massacre:-
The Coniston massacre, which took place in 1928 on Coniston cattle station, Northern Territory, Australia, was the last known massacre of Indigenous Australians!. People of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye groups were killed!. The massacre occurred in revenge for the death of dingo hunter, Frederick Brooks, supposedly killed by Aborigines in August 1928 at a place now known as Yukurru, (also Brooks Soak)!.

Official records at the time stated that thirty-one people were killed!. A member of the punitive party for the first few days and the then owner of Coniston station (Mr Randall Stafford) estimated that at least twice that number were killed!. Some historians estimate that at least sixty Aboriginal men, women and children were killed; others estimate as many as 110 were killedWww@QuestionHome@Com

Tasmanian aboriginals were virtually extinct within 30 years of British arrival!. Perhaps you could search for Tasmanian Aboriginals!. m Good luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com