Queensland Mounted Native Police

Mithaka cultural landscape placed on National Heritage List

jane2025-12-06T16:34:58+11:00December 6th, 2025|

Australia's 'oldest houses' are part of a Mithaka cultural landscape in Queensland's Channel Country that was entered on the National Heritage List on 5 December 2025. Read more from Douglas Smith, Indigenous Affairs reporter, The Guardian, Saturday 6 December 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/05/australia-national-heritage-list-mithaka-aboriginal-site?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Details of the national heritage listing, updated on [...]

Elder overjoyed at Darumbal massacre site handback

jane2022-04-24T14:49:11+10:00April 24th, 2022|

https://nit.com.au/aunty-sallys-joy-as-massacre-site-handed-back-to-darumbal-people/ Also have a look at the earlier post on this website today, 24 April 2022, about the handover of control of this reserve to the Darumbul people.

Control over sacred site returned to the Darumbal people

jane2022-04-24T10:53:41+10:00April 24th, 2022|

Control over a sacred site where 300 First Nations people were massacred in the late 1800s has been handed back to the Darumbal people. The Queensland Government's latest move gives trusteeship to the Gawula Aboriginal Land Trust of a 13.5-hectare reserve at the foot of Gai-i (formerly Mt Wheeler) [...]

Aboriginal scars from frontier wars, 18 March 2020

jane2025-07-03T13:57:02+10:00March 20th, 2020|

A long-running archaeology project, funded by the Australian Research Council, has been looking into what happened to Aboriginal men who were recruited to the Queensland Native Mounted Police, their involvement in 'the frontier wars' and the resultant trauma that impacted their lives. Read more about this story in EurekaAlert! [...]