Myall Creek massacre

And most went uninvestigated.

One of the rare prosecutions of white settlers for killing indigenous people followed the Mile Creek Massacre in 1838, a moment that exposed how unusual accountability was in frontier violence.

I'm going to be very quiet because, yes, I have so many rants.

We both do.

We had the Appen Massacre back in 1813 when Governor Macquarie sent a detachment of troops to sweep the Cumberland Plain in order to repress the attacks that were taking place against settlers in the Hawkesbury Valley.

We had the infamous Mile Creek Massacre when a party of stockmen wantonly butchered up to 30 Aboriginal men, women and children in cold blood, supposedly in retaliation for the spearing of stock, etc.

But, as we know, there were seven white men hanged for the murder of black people after that.

In Tasmania in the 1820s, in the wake of sustained attacks on isolated farms and shepherds, the then governor declared martial law for a period and There was the infamous black line that was designed to corral some of the native population into an area where they could be safe and so could the settlers.