Introduction: Remembering Myall Creek

Title: Introduction: Remembering Myall Creek
Creator: Ryan, Lyndall; Lydon, Jane
Relation: Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre p. 1-14
Publisher: NewSouth
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: June 2018 marks the 180th anniversary of the Myall Creek massacre, the best known, yet still not widely understood frontier massacre in Australia, in which it is estimated that about 30 Wirrayaraay men, women and children were assassinated. The massacre is well known because 11 of the 12 assassins were arrested and brought to trial, one of the few cases of this kind in Australia. Their employers raised funds to hire the best lawyers in the Colony of New South Wales to defend them, and after two trials, seven of the perpetrators were hanged in December 1838. Myall Creek was not the last time the colonial administration intervened to ensure the laws of the colony were applied equally to Aboriginal people and settlers involved in frontier killings. But it was the last time in the nineteenth century that some of the white perpetrators were convicted and hanged.
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1406052
Identifier: uon:35586
Identifier: ISBN:9781742244198
Language: eng

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