Police or other government forces committed almost half of massacres of Aboriginal people research finds

The killing times: a massacre map of Australia’s frontier wars

Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed report in The Guardian on 16 March 2022 about the final update of a mapping project that documents massacres of Aboriginal people. The University of Newcastle’s latest project update adds 113 more sites where six or more people were killed.

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Cairn, recording the incident, on 26 June 1860, at Attack Creek, Northern Territory, when Warramunga warriors forced explorer John McDouall Stuart and party to turn back from continuing their exploration. Courtesy, Monument Australia website.

Note: The Australian Frontier Conflicts website attempts to document conflicts between colonists and First Nations people. The site records conflicts, including wars, that may have involved massacres, even where there were no recorded deaths or injuries such as on 26 June 1860 at Attack Creek (Goaranalki), Stuart Highway, 74 kms north of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. In this conflict, Warramunga warriors attacked explorer John McDouall Stuart and party and forced them to turn back. No known deaths or injuries were recorded.