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New South Wales (NSW)

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‘Hospital Creek Massacre’
See for example, Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/151756415, Monument Australia: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/indigenous/display/20518-hospital-creek-massacre:
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(Includes research on the very effective resistance of warriors from the central-western New South Wales Wiradjuri nation).

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Organ, Michael, comp. 1990, A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770–1850, Aboriginal Education Unit, Wollongong University

Organ, Michael and AP Doyle 1995, Historical Records of the Illawarra Region of New South Wales, Australia 1770–1855: A Chronological Guide to Sources and Events

Organ, Michael K 2014, Secret Service: Governor Macquarie’s Aboriginal War of 1816, University of Wollongong, Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://l.facebook.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1496&context=asdpapers

Organ, Michael K 2016, Appin Massacre and Governor Macquarie’s War 1816, With Secrecy and Despatch Symposium, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 9 April 2016, University of Wollongong Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1562&context=asdpapers

O’Rourke, Michael 2009, Passages to the North-west Plains: The Colonial discovery and Occupation of East-Central New South Wales, 1816–26, Canberra. Covers exploration by Oxley, Howe, Lawson and Cunningham and includes an extended discussion of the armed conflict between Aborigines, settlers and police in the Hunter Valley, 1825–26. Available online at SCRIBD: https://www.scribd.com/doc/24478047/Muswellbrook-Merriwa-Mudgee-Aborigines-and-Settlers-1817-26

Poulter, Jim 2016, The Dust of the Mindeye: The use of biological warfare in the conquest of Australia, self-published

Powell, Michael 2016, Musquito Brutality and Exile–Aboriginal Resistance in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, Fullers Bookshop

Proclamation by His Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 4 May 1816, p. 1:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2176637

Read, Peter 1988, A Hundred Years War: the Wiradjuri people and the state, Australian National University Press, Canberra

R. v. Kirby and Thompson [1820] NSWKR 11; [1820] NSWSupC 11: trial of convicts John Kirby and John Thompson for the wilful murder of Burragong (King Jack), at Newcastle, New South Wales on 27 October 1820. John Kirby was found guilty of Burragong’s murder and was executed. Kirby was the first European in the colony of New South Wales to be executed for killing an Aboriginal person.

Report of the Myall Creek Massacre, 1838
Held by the State Archives of New South Wales, this is one of the first official reports of the atrocity that happened on Myall Creek station on 10 June 1838 when stockmen murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children.

‘In October 1836, William Hobbs became an overseer of Mr Henry Dangar’s three cattle stations on the Big River, one of which was on the Myall Creek (near Inverell). As the first person encountering evidence of the incident [at Myall Creek] and formally reporting it, he became one of the main Crown witnesses in the subsequent murder trials in Sydney. Seven men were eventually convicted and executed for their involvement in the massacre. It was the first time a group of white men were hanged for the murder of Aboriginal people, although the murder of an Aboriginal man by a runaway convict, 1820 had resulted in the execution of an individual (the convict John Kirby).

Hobbs subsequently had difficulty finding employment in the pastoral industry, but he was appointed Chief Constable, Wollombi and McDonald River from 1847-50, Chief Constable Windsor, 1850-64, Gaoler at Windsor 1864-65; and Gaoler at Wollongong from 6 September 1865 until his death on 8 April 1871.’ A copy of the original report and a transcript can be found here: https://gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/galleries/50-years-at-state-records-nsw/2-10/

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Tedeschi, Mark, ‘We remember them,’ Inside History, July–August 2014, pp. 46–51. Part 2 of a re-examination of the trial of those responsible for the 1838 Myall Creek massacre, New South Wales.

Tedeschi, Mark 2016, Murder at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation, Simon & Schuster (Australia) Pty Limited, Cammeray, New South Wales

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‘The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre Story,’ Friends of Myall Creek: https://myallcreek.org/the-massacre-story/
originally accessed on 14 May 2017, updated link 20 March 2020, 30 April 2021

‘The Myall Creek Massacre’ at: http://www.myallcreekmassacre.com/Myall_Creek_Massacre/Home.html

Thomas, Liz 2013, ‘Aboriginal history of the Coffs Harbour Region,’ Coffs Harbour City Library

Turbet, Peter 2011, The First Frontier: the Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788–1816, Rosenberg

Warren, Chris, ‘Smallpox outbreak of Sydney’s past,’ ABC Radio National, 13 April 2014:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/smallpox-outbreak-of-sydney27s-past/5375394

Watt, Bruce 2019, Dharawal: the first contact people, 250 years of black and white relations, self-published

Wikipedia, ‘New South Wales Police Force’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_Police_Force

Wikipedia, William Punch (1880–1917): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Punch#:~:text=Private%20William%20Joseph%20Punch%20%2831%20March%201880%20-,
War%20One%20with%20the%20First%20Australian%20Imperial%20Force
Background story on Private William Joseph Punch, a Wiradjuri man, the sole survivor of a massacre at Bland Creek, New South Wales, in 1880 (see also Some Known Conflicts in New South Wales). Punch served in World War I, dying on 29 August 1917.

Wood, Rebecca, ‘Frontier violence and the Bush Legend: The Sydney Herald’s Response to the Myall Creek Massacre Trials and the Creation of Colonial Identity,’ History Australia, Vol. 6, No. 3 (December 2009), pp. 67.1–67.19. Published online on 18 February 2016. Updated most recently 18 April 2022.

Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–2023. Updated April 2022, 2 October 2022, 16 November 2022, 19 April 2023, 31 May 2023, 6 September 2023, 4 October 2023, 1 February 2024, 5 April 2024.

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