Some Known Frontier Conflicts in Queensland

Some of the main sources for information about conflicts that happened in Queensland include publications like: Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland’s frontier killing times, Timothy Bottoms, Allen & Unwin, 2013 Goodbye Bussamarai: the Mandandanji land war, southern Queensland, 1842–1852, Patrick Collins, University of Queensland Press, 2002 Mapping Frontier Conflicts in South-East Queensland, Ray Kerkove, 2016 at: https://frontierbattle.wordpress.com The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police, Jonathan Richards, University of Queensland Press, 2008 Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier, Libby Connors, Allen & Unwin, 2015 ‘”You’ll get nothing out of it”? The Inquest, Police and Aboriginal Deaths in Colonial Queensland,’ Mark Finnane and Jonathan Richards, Australian Historical Studies, no. 123, April, 2004, pp. 84–105 More references are in the Bibliography and in Journal Articles. To see a map of conflicts that happened in Queensland, please follow this link. All coordinates are approximate. Updating this map is on going and may not always reflect the list of places below. Many thanks to those who have contributed information about frontier conflicts that occurred in Queensland. Locations will be added to the list below as new information is found and time permits. If you know of incidents that occurred, that are not included and wish to contact the author of this website, please use the form on the Contact page. WARNING: Some of the names of places included in the following list, derived from geographical names registers, historical and modern-day maps, and other primary and secondary sources, are offensive and may be upsetting to some readers. These placenames reflect the attitudes, racism and activities of people who gave these places English names during the frontier period.