
WO Hodgkinson, Bulla [sic] Queensland, 1861, painting : watercolour ; 21.8 x 13.4 cm., on sheet 17.8 cm x 25.4 cm. From the album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia. National Library of Australia
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.
Date | Location |
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1792 | Torres Strait, QLD, ships under the command of Captain William Bligh fired on Aboriginal canoes. |
16 July 1799 | Point Skirmish (South Point) Boorabee (Bribie) Island, QLD, Captain Matthew Flinders sails with Bongaree and crew on the Norfolk from Glass House Bay to Boorabee (Bribie) Island. After landing from a smaller craft, they encounter Aboriginal people, one of whom tries to remove Flinders' hat. Flinders refuses to let the man take off his hat. He, Bongaree, and the crew return to their boat. The Aboriginal man throws a spear near the boat. Flinders fires his musket and wounds the Aboriginal man. Flinders names the spot Point Skirmish (now known as South Point). |
Nov 1824 | South side of Yebri Creek, near Redcliffe settlement, QLD, Aboriginal people attack convicts with soldier guards as they are sawing a bloodwood tree. One Aboriginal man killed. Afterwards Aboriginal people around Redcliffe are so hostile that the settlement is moved to Brisbane. |
1827–1828 | Kangaroo Point and South Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD, despite a number of Aboriginal people being shot dead, Aborigines repeatedly raid and destroy maize (corn) fields on which colonists rely for food, in a bid to drive the intruders out of Aboriginal country. |
1830 | Logan Creek, Brisbane Valley, QLD, Aboriginal people, possibly with the help of convicts, allegedly murder Brisbane commandant Captain Logan. |
Mid-1831 | Minjerribah (Stradbroke) Island, QLD |
Mid-1831 | Moorgumpin (Moreton) Island near Brisbane, QLD |
1831–1832 | Moorgumpin (Morton) Island near Brisbane, QLD |
November 1832 | Minjerribah (Stradbroke) Island, QLD |
1832–1833 | Minjerribah (Stradbroke) and Moorgumpin (Moreton) Islands near Brisbane, QLD, Conflicting European accounts and Aboriginal oral history refer to a number of conflicts between staff of the Amity Point pilot station, established on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in 1826, and Aboriginal people. |
1833 | Moorgumpin (Moreton) Island, QLD, Massacre of Aboriginal people at the top of a large lagoon on the southern end of the island, now eroded into the sea. The attack may have been the last in a series of reprisals between Aboriginal people and soldiers stationed on Minjerribah. |
1836 | Fraser Island, QLD, Captain James Fraser, and possibly crew of the shipwrecked Stirling Castle, speared. |
1838 | Crampton's Corner, north side of the McIntyre (Mcintyre) River (Cowbawn Coonigal), QLD |
1838 | Kilcoy Station, north-west of Moreton Bay, QLD |
1838 | Berpengary, QLD, (26 miles (c. 42 kms) from Nundah), Aboriginal people attack Moravian missionary Pastor Gottfried Haussman. He is badly wounded but escapes. |
1840 | Long Lagoon Station, QLD |
1840 | Nundah, north Brisbane, QLD, Aboriginal people attack the German Mission more than once, notably in 1840 when 20 to 30 warriors sack the Reverend Schmidt's fields. The mission is forced to keep nightly armed watch over its crops. In retaliation Schmidt shoots and wounds Aboriginal elders. |
31 May 1840 | Near Mt Lindesay, QLD, Aboriginal people kill surveyor Stapylton and his assistant Tuck. |
1840s–1860s | Northside of Brisbane, QLD, as the Brisbane area was colonised, no allowance was made officially for Aboriginal camps. Creeks acted as de facto barriers between colonised areas and locations where Aboriginal people could live unmolested. When colonists strayed into such locations they were often harassed, robbed or subjected to violence. While Europeans allowed some traditional Aboriginal camping grounds to remain, they attacked others. Some of the incidents that occurred on the north side of Brisbane in the 1840s–1860s period are included individually in this timeline. |
1840–1860 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, for Aboriginal people, a 'front line' against encroaching British colonisation. The area was the location of a number of clashes between colonists and Aboriginal groups. Aboriginal warriors such as Billy Barlow, Commandant, Dalaipi, Dundalli, Harry Pring, Tinkabed and Yilbung were all visitors to the prosperous Breakfast Creek camps. Some of the individual incidents that took place in the Breakfast Creek area are listed in this timeline. |
31 July 1841 | Brisbane, QLD, Merrido and Neugavil wrongfully executed, for murder of Stapylton and Tuck, on a cross-arm of the Brisbane windmill (observatory tower). |
1842 | Brisbane Valley, QLD |
1842 | Callandoon district, McIntyre River, QLD, two hutkeepers killed during a series of Aboriginal attacks. Pastoralists and police retaliate. |
1842 | Kilcoy Station, QLD, north-west of Moreton Bay |
1842 | Whiteside, Morton Bay, QLD |
1842–1852 | Mandandanji Land War, southern Queensland |
1843–1846 | Rosewood Scrub, QLD, from this impenetrable area of bush, Multuggerah continues attacks on drays and travellers as far as the Darling Downs. Rosewood Homestead (now Glenore Grove) is repeatedly under siege. Colonists possibly construct a makeshift 'fort' on the property that they take turns in manning. |
12 Sept 1843 | Lockyer Valley, QLD, Battle of One Tree Hill (Mount Tabletop or Table Top Mountain). Aboriginal people led by Multuggerah. |
1845 | Gilbert River, far north QLD, explorer Leichhardt's naturalist, Gilbert fatally speared. |
1845 | Wivenhoe, Brisbane Valley, QLD, John Uhr killed during an Aboriginal attack. |
1846 | Rosewood Scrub, QLD, In 1846 Multuggerah brings 500 warriors to Rosewood Homestead, almost starving out the occupants. Visitors and Rosewood Homestead residents form a party, storming Multuggerah's camp, killing him and many others. Other Aboriginal leaders such as Jackey, Uncle Marney and King Billy appear to operate from Rosewood Scrub in later years. |
strong>1846 | Victoria Park Aboriginal camp, north Brisbane, QLD, Constable Peter Murphy and party burn camp and shoot Aboriginal people. |
20 Oct 1846 | North Pine, south-east QLD, Aboriginal people led by Milbong Jemmy murder Andrew Gregor and Mrs Shannon with waddies. Mr Shannon later attacked but escapes. |
Oct 1846 | Eagle Farm, Brisbane, QLD, Milbong attacks Mr Richardson, robs his house. |
Oct 1846 | Doughboy Creek, (now part of Hemmant, Brisbane) QLD, Milbong attacks sawyers, is shot, dies almost immediately. |
1846, 1847 | Wickham Park, north Brisbane, QLD, Yilbung took regular bags of flour for his people from millworkers at the Windmill (now a hotel and restaurant on Wickham Terrace) as a 'monthly rent'. He was imprisoned for this 'impertinence.' |
1847 | Kilcoy Station, Upper Brisbane River, QLD, station hands set a trap putting arsenic-laced flour in hut. Aboriginal people rob the hut, many die after eating the flour. |
Mid-April 1847 | Whiteside Station, QLD (established on the North Pine River) |
11 Sep 1847 | North Pine, Brisbane district, QLD, Aborigines led by Dundalli kill William Waller and badly wound William Boller. James Smith escapes. |
Sept 1847 | Goodar, near Callandoon, QLD, James Marks kills an Aboriginal man. |
13 Oct 1847 | Mary River, Maryborough district, QLD, George Furber and friend attacked by Aboriginal assistants while building a woolshed. The friend is killed, Furber wounded. Furber later retaliates, shooting the Aboriginal man who attacked him. |
1847–49 | Mt Abundance, near Roma, QLD, Aboriginal people kill seven Europeans. |
1848 | Escape River, tip of Cape York, QLD, explorer Edmund Kennedy speared, dies in the arms of Aboriginal tracker, Jackey Jackey. |
1848 | Maryborough, QLD, Aborigines kill George Furber and his brother-in-law in the bush. |
1848 | Tingun Station near Roma, QLD, James Blythe attacked by Aboriginal people and driven off station. |
1848 | Umbercollie, QLD |
1849 | Balonne and Condamine Rivers, QLD |
1849 | Bigumbul (Bigambul), QLD |
1849 | Carbucky, QLD |
1849 | Paddy Island, Burnett River, QLD |
1849 | Severn River, QLD |
1849 | Victoria Park Aboriginal camp, north Brisbane, QLD, 24 soldiers of the 11th Regiment burn camp and shoot Aboriginal residents. |
4 June 1849 | Gin Gin Station, Burnett area, QLD, Following the establishment, by Gregory Blaxland and William Forster, of Gin Gin station in 1848, tensions grew between the newcomers and the Taribelang-Bunda people on whose Country the pastoralists intruded. Aboriginal people kill shepherds, the Pegg brothers, on 4 June 1849. More about this frontier violence is covered, for example by Arthur Laurie, 'Early Gin Gin and the Blaxland Tragedy', presentation to the Historical Society of Queensland, 27 November 1952, copy available on the website of the library of the University of Queensland, and in Renee Coffey's University of Queensland's Honours Thesis, Frontier violence in Gin Gin: a history of murder, massacre and myth, access available at: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319766 |
Aft June 1849 | The Cedars (about 14 miles, or 22.5 kms) from Gin Gin, QLD, Gregory Blaxland, the Thompson brothers and friendly Aborigines kill 'scores of blacks' in a disproportionate reprisal for the Pegg brothers' deaths. (See entry above). More about this massacre is recounted by Arthur Laurie in a paper, ‘Early Gin Gin and the Blaxland Tragedy’, presented to the Historical Society of Queensland on 27 November 1952. (Note: some of the language used in this paper is highly offensive today). Another source for what happened at Gin Gin and vicinity in 1849 is Renee Coffey's Honours Thesis, Frontier violence in Gin Gin: a history of murder, massacre and myth, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland, 2006. Access to this thesis is available at: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319766 |
1850 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, colonist 'residents' living near Breakfast Creek petition the government for police protection from Aboriginal attacks. |
1850 | Nundah, north Brisbane, QLD, Aboriginal people harass cattle at the German Mission. |
1850s | Teewah Beach, Noosa area, QLD |
March 1850 | Yuleba Creek, QLD |
August 1850 | Gin Gin Station (now part of the town of Gin Gin), QLD, Gregory Blaxland ambushed and killed near the station homestead. |
1850 | Paddy Island, Burnett River, QLD, a punitive party of squatters and station hands from Gin Gin and surrounding properties kill hundreds of Aboriginal people on Paddy Island. Many escape by swimming the river and disappearing into the Woongarra Scrub. |
1851 | Maranoa, QLD |
1852 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, 40 Aboriginal warriors raid Bullock's property, destroying crops. Joining with another party of 200, they raid Cash's property further north. A large party of eight mounted men and colonists attack Aboriginal camps in reprisal. Despite the camps being empty the 'posse' burn down and destroy whatever they can. |
1852 | Fraser Island, QLD |
1852 | Isla Station, Dawson River, QLD, Aborigines kill McLaren near the station homestead. |
1852 | Rawbelle Station, QLD, an Aboriginal man named Davey kills Adolphus Trevethan |
May–July 1852 | Yamboucal Station (near Surat), QLD |
22 Aug 1852 | Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD, Davey, an Aboriginal man, hanged for murder of Adolphus Trevethan. |
3 Dec 1853 | Sandgate, Brisbane area, QLD, Aborigines attack Tom Dowse and family. They escape with their lives. Incident leads to the establishment of a Native Police camp at Sandgate headed by Lt. Wheeler. |
c. 1854 | Miriam Vale, QLD |
1854 | Granville, QLD |
1854 | Nundah, north Brisbane, QLD, 60 Aboriginal warriors surround a colonist's homestead, pulling up all crops. |
1854 | Tieryboo, QLD |
25 Dec 1854 | Mt Larcom Station, Port Curtis district, QLD, Aborigines murder five of Young's employees while he is away at Gladstone. The Native Police pursue murderers, killing many. |
5 Jan 1855 | Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD, Dundalli hanged. |
1856 | Werribone (Weribone), QLD |
December 1856 | Hornet Bank, Dawson River, QLD |
1856–1857 | Hornet Bank, Dawson River, QLD |
1856–1857 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, Aboriginal groups continually harass, raid and rob colonists. Colonists retaliate with punitive attacks. |
27 October 1857 | Hornet Bank Massacre (Fraser family), Hornet Bank Station, Dawson River Basin, QLD |
1857–58 | Hornet Bank, Dawson River, district QLD, retaliatory massacres of hundreds of Yeeman people |
1858 | Fairymead, QLD |
1858 | Maryborough, QLD |
1858 | Nundah, north Brisbane, QLD, Nundah colonists decide on a 'pre-emptive strike' against a local Aboriginal camp after becoming frightened by a war-making corroboree and threats from Aboriginal warriors. The colonists fire shots into the camp. While Aboriginal deaths and injuries are unknown, the camp is abandoned for two months. As revenge, Aboriginal survivors disperse and kill many cattle on the Pine Rivers. |
6 Apr 1858 | Eurombah Station, Dawson River area, QLD, Aborigines kill two shepherds. |
1859 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, Five police destroy Aboriginal camps near Breakfast Creek, kill and injure at least two of the 100 Aboriginal camp residents. |
September 1859 | Near Brisbane, QLD, shooting of an Aboriginal woman and injuries to two children |
Early 1860s | "Waterview". North Bundaberg, QLD |
1860 | Bendemere, QLD, Frederick Carr's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. |
1860 | Fassifern, QLD, Frederick Wheeler's Native Police detachment kill several Aboriginal people. An inqest or inquiry in January 1861 reprimands Wheeler. |
1860 | Flinders Peak, near Ipswich, QLD, Frederick Wheeler's Native Police detachment possibly kill unknown number of Aboriginal people. Inqest or inquiry into the deaths of Tommy and an unknown Aboriginal person concludes they were killed by the Native Police. |
1860 | Maryborough, QLD, John Bligh's Native Police detachment possibly kill unknown number of Aboriginal people. February 1860 Inquest or inquiry into the death of the Aboriginal man, Darky, concludes Native Police shot him. |
Nov/Dec 1860 | Rockhampton area, QLD, Native Police Troopers, Toby and Gulliver are arrested and charged with the rape and murder of Fanny Briggs. Trooper Ballantyne is also charged in December 1860 but later released. Gulliver shot dead while escaping, after admitting his part in the Briggs murder. Trooper Alma, possibly implicated but never charged, shot while trying to escape from Rockhampton Gaol. |
1861 | Albinia Downs, QLD |
1861 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, Aboriginal people drive off colonists' drays and rob travellers. Constable Griffin and two mounted police raid Aboriginal camp and make arrests. |
1861 | strong Bulloo, QLD, conflict between members of the Burke and Wills expedition and Aboriginal people. |
1861 | Dawson River, QLD, an inquest or inquiry into the death of ex-Trooper Tahiti, concludes in July 1861 that he was shot by the Native Police. |
1861 | Near Emerald, QLD |
1861 | Fairfield Station, QLD, William Moorhead's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. An inquest or inquiry concludes in December 1861that at least one Aboriginal person, name unkown, was shot by the Native Police. |
1861 | Flinders River, QLD, Native Police kill 12 Aboriginal people in a clash over the right to camp at a fresh water spring. |
1861 | Manumbar, QLD, Rudolph Morisset's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1861 | Medway Ranges, central highlands, QLD |
1861 | Planet Creek, Springsure district, QLD, Native Police involved in killing Aboriginal people. |
Early 1861 | Rockhampton area, QLD, Native Police Lieutenant Rudolph Morriset shoots an alleged Aboriginal deserter, implicated in the Briggs murder, who had escaped to the bush. |
17 October 1861 | Cullinguringa (Cullin-La-Ringo), north of Springsure, central Queensland (Wills Tragedy), up to 50 Aboriginal people attack and murder 19 of 25 colonists who are setting up a very large 260 square-kilometre (64,000-acre) property on Aboriginal country north of Springsure. |
21–24 October 1861 | Springsure area, QLD, following the Cullinguringa (Cullin-La-Ringo) massacre, eleven colonists pursue the Aboriginal people they believe to be the perpetrators. The Aboriginal camp is 'stormed on foot with success' very early on the morning of 23 October 1861. The number of Aboriginal people injured or killed in the ensuing fight is not recorded. On 24 October 1861, Native Police Lieutenant William Cave commands a detachment that begins a further pursuit in reprisal against Aboriginal people. Colonists from the Leichhart District, occupation of which is growing rapidly, call for a bigger native police presence in the district. |
October 1861 | Maranoa River, QLD, in the aftermath of the Cullinguringa (Cullin-La-Ringo) massacre, Native Police kill at least 10 Aboriginal people in a 'dispersal' at the Maranoa River. Two Native Police injured. |
November 1861 | Roxburgh (Roxborough) Downs, QLD |
c. 1862 | Cape Upstart, QLD |
1862 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, Constable Griffin and a trooper 'disperse' Aboriginal people in the area. |
1862 | Caboolture, near Brisbane, QLD |
1862 | Coongoola, QLD |
1862 | Lower Dawson River, QLD, Ralph Johnson's Native Police detachment kills at least one Aboriginal person. An inquest or inquiry concludes in December 1862 that the Native Police shot at least one Aboriginal person. |
1863 | Gayndah, QLD, Joseph Harris's Native police detachment kill an Aboriginal man called Jemmy. An inquiry or inquest concludes in April 1863 that the native Police shot Jemmy. Officer Harris is suspended and dismissed for neglect of duty in 'allowing his troopers out of his control'. |
1863 | Meteor Creek, Springsure district, QLD, William Sharpe's Native Police detachment involved in killing of at least one Aboriginal person. |
1863 | Tieryboo, Dalby, QLD, Frederick Carr's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. An inquest or inquiry concludes in January 1863 that the native Police shot an Aboriginal man, named Tallboy. |
1863 | Yatton, QLD, Marmaduke Richardson's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. An inquiry or inquest concludes in September 1863 that the Native Police shot an Aboriginal man called Wallace. Richardson is dismissed. |
1864 | Eureka near Bundaberg, QLD, Brown's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. |
1864 | Pabaju (Albany Island), QLD |
c. Mid-1864 | Murdering Creek near Lake Weyba, near Noosa Heads, QLD, massacre of Aboriginal people |
4 June 1864 | Sander's Run, QLD |
10 June 1864 | Expedition Range, QLD |
16 December 1864 | Nassau River, QLD |
18 December 1864 | Mitchell River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD, in the Battle of the Mitchell, Aboriginal warriors, hurling spears, fought a pitched battle against armed Europeans. Many warriors were killed or injured. No colonists were injured or died. |
1865 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, Aboriginal people attack two constables. Aboriginal camps in the Breakfast Creek area burnt down again in revenge. |
1865 | Calliope, QLD, Arthur Beevor's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. An inquiry or inquest concludes in October 1865 that an unknown Aboriginal person or persons was/were killed by the Native Police. |
1865 | Dawson River district, QLD, Otto Paschen's Native Police detachment involved in 'numerous collisions'. |
1865 | Glenmore, QLD |
1865 | Mailman's Gorge, near Aramac, QLD |
1865 | Thouringowa (Thuringowa) Waterhole, QLD |
May 1865 | Near Rannes, QLD, Native Police officer, Cecil Hill, killed during an Aboriginal attack. |
8 June 1965 | Rio Station, Dawson River, QLD, Aborigines ambush and kill a European police sergeant and three Aboriginal troopers. |
Mid-1860s | West of Rockhampton, QLD |
c. 1866 | Chesterton (Pigeon) Creek, QLD |
1866 | Banana, QLD, Native Police officer, Edward Seymour, kills an Aboriginal woman. An inquiry or inquest concludes in February 1866 that the Native Police killed the woman. Seymour was discharged in 1868 after his position was abolished. |
1866 | Pearl Creek, QLD |
1866 | Perch Creek, QLD |
1867 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, 15 Aboriginal people steal a boat and ransack a cutter. Sub-Inspector of Police Gough burns Aboriginal camps in the Breakfast Creek area. |
1867 | Goulbolba Hill, central QLD |
1867 | Morinish, QLD, Myrtil Aubin's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. An inquiry or inquest concludes in March 1867 that the native Police shot an Aboriginal man named Tommy. Aubin is dismissed. |
1867 | Paroo River, south-west QLD, William Hill's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1867 | Stawell River, QLD |
1867 | The Leap, north-west of Mackay, QLD |
c. 1867 | Broadsound district, QLD |
1867 | Turtle Head Island, QLD |
1868 | Albert Downs, Gregory River, QLD, Aboriginal people rob station of firearms, axes, food and other supplies. "Dispersed by law of the carbine'. No loss of lives or injuries reported. |
1868 | Burdekin, QLD |
1868 | Cassidy's Station, Leichhart River, QLD, Aboriginal people attack station, 'dispersed by law of the carbine'. No deaths or injuries reported. |
1868 | Grosvenor Downs, QLD |
1868 | Gregory River, QLD, |
1868 | Inverleigh, QLD |
1868 | Mailman's Gorge near Aramac, QLD, more than 25 Aboriginal people slaughtered. |
1868 | Norman River, QLD, Aborigines kill Cannon, Manson and a number of Chinese employees on Liddie and Hetzer's station. |
1868 | South of Burketown, QLD (Uhr Massacre), Uhr's Native Police detachment slaughter Aboriginal people in a massacre. |
17 Dec 1868 | North Creek Station, Nebo, QLD, Aborigines murder JT Collins. |
1869 | Bowen district, QLD |
1869 | Muralag (Prince of Wales Island), QLD, Aborigines capture captain and crew of a cutter, kill some and a boy. Captain Montgomerie's frigate Blanche with police aboard embarks on a punitive expedition against the 'Mt Ernest natives' believed responsible. Three 'chiefs' shot. |
1869 | Nebo, QLD, Robert Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1869 | Woodstock, QLD |
1870 | Barcoo River, QLD, Edward Wheeler's Native Police detachment kills several Aboriginal people. |
Early 1870s | Battle hole, Barcoo River, QLD |
1870s | Gilbert River, QLD |
1870–90 | Kalkadoon Wars, Mt Isa region, QLD (see also Battle Mountain below) |
1871 | Cloncurry, QLD, an inquest or inquiry into the death of an unknown Aboriginal person concludes that WD Uhr shot the person. Charges dismissed. |
1871 | Gilberton, QLD, deadly clashes between Aboriginal people, miners and Native Police. |
1871 | Somerset, QLD, Frank Jardine allegedly shoots four Native Police troopers, three apparently survive but try to escape by sea in a canoe a month later. |
1871 | Tiaro, QLD, an inquest or inquiry concludes in June 1871 that Police Constable McMullen shot an Aboriginal man named Bungaree. |
1872 | Aramac, Barcaldine region, QLD, Frederick Maier killed. |
1872 | Near Cardwell, QLD, Aborigines kill some survivors of Maria shipwreck, help others |
1872 | Near Cardwell, QLD, Native Police involved in reprisals against Aboriginal people believed to have killed Maria shipwreck survivors. |
1872 | Cloncurry, QLD, Alexander Salmond's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1872 | Clump Point, Mission Beach, QLD, Robert Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1872 | Gladstone, QLD, Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. Inquires or inquests concluded in August (for and Aboriginal man called Billy) and in September 1872 for Harry and Tommy, that the Native Police under the command of Alexander Douglas had shot them. |
1872 | Djiru massacre, opposite Dunk (Coonanglebah) Island, QLD |
1872 | Herbert River, far north QLD, Charles Shairp (Sharpe)'s Native Police detachment kills an Aboriginal woman. An inquest ot inquiry cincludes in September 1872 that An Aboriginal woman called Cassey was shot by the native Police. Shairp or Sharpe is dismissed. |
1872 | Hinchinbrook Island, QLD |
1872 | Mount Leonard, QLD |
1872 | Sweers Island, QLD |
1872 | Tambo, Barcoo River, central QLD, Thomas Williams's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. An inquest or inquiry concludes in October 1872 that Billy and Chow Chow were shot by the Native Police. Williams is dismissed. |
1872 | Near Yaamba, north of Rockhampton, QLD |
1872 | Valley of Lagoons, QLD, Johnstone's Native Police detachment alleged to have killed Aboriginal people. |
1872 | Wombindery Waterhole, QLD |
1873 | Aramac, Barcaldine region, QLD, John Carroll's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1873 | Opposite Double Island, QLD |
1873 | Herbert River, QLD, Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1873 | Massacre Sandhill, QLD |
1873 | Normanby, QLD, Aulaire Morisset's Native Police detachment involved in killing. |
1873 | Northern QLD (Pearl Shellers' Revenge) |
1873 | Palm Cove, QLD, Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1873 | Skull Creek near Nebo, QLD |
1873 | St Lawrence, QLD, Native Police detachment under the command of Alexander Douglas, shoot Aboriginal men, Charley and Dickey. Inquiries or inquests conclude in July and August respectively that the Native Police shot the men. |
April 1873 | Green Island off Cairns, QLD |
10 July 1873 | Green Island off Cairns, QLD |
22 Nov 1873 | Gilberton goldfield, QLD, Aborigines kill two Chinese prospectors, two reported missing. |
c. December 1873 | Battle Camp 'collision' far north QLD, European prospectors and Native Police engage in armed battle with Aboriginal tribespeople. Hundreds of Aboriginal people killed, about four Europeans speared to death. |
c. 1873 | Elderslie station, Diamantina River, QLD, Carroll's Native Police from Aramac slaughter many male Aborigines on the station. |
1874 | Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, QLD, Mounted police 'disperse' occupants of Aboriginal camps in the area. |
1874 | Bloomfield River, far north QLD, while trying to find a shorter route from the coast to the Palmer goldfield, Edward Dumaresq's Native Police detachment is involved in a number of killings of Aboriginal people. |
1874 | Gilberton, QLD, Henry Finch's Native Police detachment involved in killings of Aboriginal people. |
June 1874 | Green Island off Cairns, QLD |
1874 | Herbert River, QLD, Native Police shoot Trooper Sam. An inquiry or inquest concludes in October 1874 that the Native Police shot Trooper Sam. |
Late 1874 | Palmer River area, QLD, Aboriginal people kill Straher family. |
1874–1875 | Blackfellows Creek, far north Queensland |
1875 | Miriam Vale, QLD, Native Police officer Alexander Douglas involved in an Aboriginal killing or killings. An inquiry or inquest concludes in May 1875 that an Aboriginal person called Comey, was shot by the Native Police under Douglas's command. |
1875 | Palmer River area, QLD, reprisals against Aboriginal people following Straher deaths |
1875 | Aramac, QLD, Native Police Officer John Carroll is implicated in the shooting of Trooper Echo. An inquest or inquiry concludes in October 1875 that the Native Police killed Trooper Echo. Carroll is charged with murder of a trooper and the flogging of an Aboriginal woman but the case is dismissed. He is dismissed in 1876 for the murder of a trooper. |
1876 | Banchory Station near Clermont, QLD, Native Police officer Frederick Wheeler charged with murder of an Aboriginal man named Jemmy. An inquiry or inquest concludes in January 1876 that the Native Police killed Jemmy. Wheeler charged with the Banchory murder and is dismissed. |
1876 | Creen Creek, QLD, Native Police detachments led by Armit and Poingdestre kill Aboriginal people. |
1876 | Kennedy River, QLD |
March 1876 | Mistake Creek, near Clermont, QLD |
c. 1876 | Kangkirr Creek, QLD |
c. 1877 | Skull Hole (Creek) Massacre, western Queensland |
1877 | Townsville, QLD, an inquiry or inquest concludes in February 1877 that Constable MacNeill shot an Aboriginal man called Jackey. |
February 1878 | Range west of Cairns, QLD |
February 1878 | Tuck-au-noo, far north QLD, Aboriginal people allegedly murder W Bird in retaliation for kidnapping three members of local tribe. |
31 August 1878 | Smithfield near Cairns, QLD |
1878 | Murray Island, QLD |
August 1878 | Whitsunday Islands, QLD, Aboriginal attack on the schooner Louisa Maria and her crew. Native Police reprisals led by George Nowlan. |
Late 1878 | Cooktown district, far north QLD |
1878? | Warroo Station, St George, QLD |
1879 | Cape Bedford, far north QLD |
1879 | Near Cooktown, QLD, Stanhope O'Connor's Native Police detachment involved in killing Aboriginal people. |
1879 | Glengyle, QLD |
1879 | Mossman River, QLD, George Nowlan's Native Police detachment involved in killing Aboriginal people. |
1879 | Ravine, QLD |
1879 | Selwyn Range, north-west Queensland |
1879 | Thursday Island, QLD |
1879 | Woonomo Billabong, Suleiman Creek, north-west QLD |
September 1879 | Mulgrave River near Cairns, QLD |
1880 | Normanton district, QLD, an inquiry or inquest concludes in February 1880 that Constable Hedges shot Aboriginal Trooper Brandy. |
Early 1880s | Clohesy River near Kuranda, QLD |
Early 1880s | Moonjaree, QLD |
1880s | Koonchera Point, Birdsville, QLD (Mindiri Massacre) |
1880s | Poeppels (Poeppel) Corner, east Simpson Desert, QLD (Wardamba Massacre) |
1880s | Tinnenburra, QLD |
Late 1880s | Near Cairns, QLD |
c. 1880 | Butcher's Creek area, QLD, according to Ngadjonji oral history, fighting erupts between colonists and Aboriginal people after Europeans interfere with Aboriginal women while their men are away from camp. Some colonists speared, many Aboriginal people shot. More Aboriginal people shot in later incidents. |
1881 | Bibhoora near Mareeba, QLD |
1881 | Lizard Island, north of Cooktown, QLD, Mrs Mary Watson and baby disappear from a fishing station after Chinese manservants speared. Aboriginal people blamed for killings. Native Police inspector Hervey Fitzgerald leads punitive killing raids on the coast north of Cooktown. |
1881 | Normanton, QLD, Aboriginal people kill Native Police sub-inspector Dyas. |
1881 | Victoria Downs, QLD, an inquiry or inquest concludes in January 1881 that Constable Cameron shot an Aboriginal man named Jamie. |
1881 | Woolgar, QLD, Native Police officer Henry Kaye killed during an Aboriginal attack. Native Police reprisals follow under command of William Nichols. |
1882 | Cloncurry, QLD, Frederick Urquhart's Native Police detachment kill Kalkadoon people. |
1882 | McKinlay Ranges near Cloncurry, QLD, Native Police cadet, Marcus La Poer Beresford, killed in Aboriginal attack. |
1882 | Taroom, QLD, an inquiry or inquest concludes in October 1882 that Constable Wright killed an Aboriginal man named Toby. |
1882 | Tudu (Warrior Island), Torres Strait, QLD |
November 1882 | Between Granite Creek (later Mareeba) and Cairns, QLD |
1883 | Cooloolah, Cloncurry district, QLD, Alfred Smart's Native Police detachment kill Kalkadoon people. |
23 July 1883 | Russell River near Cairns, QLD |
26 August 1883 | Near Russell River, QLD |
1884 | Battle Mountain (Mount Remarkable), near Mount Isa, QLD (Kalkadoon Wars) |
1884(5)? | Blackall, QLD, Native Police under the command of Robert Kyle Little (?) shoot an unknown Aboriginal person. Inquiry or inquest concludes this in October 1884. |
1884 | Grenada, QLD |
1884 | Irvinebank, inland from Cairns, QLD, Nichols's and Garraway's Native Police detachment kill at least six Aboriginal people. Bodies burnt. Inquiries or inquests conclude in August and November 1884 that the Native Police shot Aboriginal people called Spooendyke, Toby, King Billy and Kitty and two unknown Aboriginal females. Nichols and troopers charged with murder, charges fail. Nichols dismissed. |
1884 | Mistake Creek, Isaac region, QLD, Frederick Urquhart's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1884 | Mulgrave River, QLD |
1884 | Selwyn Range, QLD |
1884 | Skull Pocket/Mulgrave River/Skeleton Creek, QLD |
1884 | White Hills, QLD |
August 1884 | Russell River near Cairns, QLD |
Aug/Dec 1884 | Mulgrave River near Cairns, QLD |
21 December 1884 | Mulgrave River near Cairns, QLD |
1885 | Blackall, QLD, Robert Little's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1885 | Cockatoo Bora, QLD |
1885 | Norman River, QLD, Lyndon Poingdestre's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
6 Sept 1886 | Near Cairns, QLD |
1887 | Kimberley, Normanton district, QLD, Daniel Lorigan's and Lyndon Poingdestre's Native Police detachments kill Aboriginal people. Inquiries or inquests conclude in October and November 1887 that the Native Police shot three unknown Aboriginal people. |
1888 | Near Barron River, QLD, Native Police member John de Linden Affleck shoots Trooper Peter dead. |
1888 | Diamantina district, south-west QLD |
1888 | Ingham, QLD, an inquiry or inquest concludes in January 1888 that Constable Cannon shot an Aboriginal man called Tommy. |
1888 | Kirrima, QLD |
Late 1880s | Near Cairns, QLD |
1888 | Port Douglas, QLD, (see Barron River above) an inquiry or inquest concludes in September 1888 that Native Police member Affleck shot Trooper Peter. |
1888 | Queensland, inquiry or inquest concludes in December 1888 that Ernest Henry T (?) Carr shot an Aboriginal male called Paddy. |
1888–89 | Boar (Boar's Pocket) near Cairns, QLD |
1889 | Coen, QLD |
1889 | Lawn Hill, north-western QLD, Alfred Wavell killed while attempting to arrrest Aboriginal man, Joe Flick. |
1889 | Mein, north QLD, Frederick Urquhart's Native Police detachment kill Aboriginal people. |
1889 | Pine Tree Station, QLD |
Mid-1890s | Speewah near Kuranda, far north QLD |
Mid-1890s | Spring Valley between Cairns and Port Douglas, QLD |
Mid-1890s? | Flaggy Creek near Kuranda, QLD |
Mid-1890s? | Mona Mona near Kuranda, QLD |
July 1890 | Lower Barron River, QLD? |
1891 | Adavale, QLD, An inquiry or inquest concludes in November 1891 that Tracker Tommy killed an Aboriginal person called Delta. |
1891 | Spring Vale, QLD |
1892 | Mapoon, QLD, Native Police shoot a number of Aboriginal people. |
August 1892 | Myola near Kuranda, QLD |
1896 | Lakefield, QLD |
17 August 1896 | Deebing Creek, QLD |
1897 | Proserpine, QLD, an inquiry or inquest concludes in March 1897 that Constable Burke shot Aboriginal man, Charlie Morgan |
1898 | Smithfield, near Cairns, QLD, John Higgins's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1898–1903 | Barron River, Wooroora, and Mt Garnet, QLD, Heenan's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
Late 1800s | Skull Hole (now in Bladensburg National Park), QLD |
1900s | Emu Lagoon, north QLD |
1902 | Ducie River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD, John Hoole's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. |
1904 | Flick Yard, QLD |
1904 | Kirrima, QLD |
c. 1906 | Murbai, QLD |
1910s | Emu Lagoon, QLD |
1911–1918 | Bentinck Island, QLD |
November 1929 | Nine miles (14.38 kms) from Herbert Vale Station near Camooweal, QLD |
Dates Unknown | Allandale, north QLD |
| Baryula (on Chasletown Station), south-western QLD |
| Blencoe Falls, north QLD |
| Blunder Creek, north QLD |
| Bone's Knob, north QLD |
| Bulloo Downs, south-west QLD |
| Cattle Creek, north-west QLD |
| Chastletown Station, south-western QLD |
| Cheviot Range, central QLD |
| Currawillinghi, south central QLD |
| Evelyn Massacre, north QLD |
| Flaggy Creek, north QLD |
| Gilpeppee, western QLD |
| Gray Rock, north QLD |
| Isis Downs, QLD |
| Jirin, north QLD |
| Kulpie Waterhole, western QLD |
| Longton, north QLD |
| Morney Plains, western QLD |
| Mt Farquharson, north QLD |
| N*****'s Bounce, north QLD |
| Nocaboorara, south-west QLD |
| Rifle Creek, north QLD |
| Skull Lagoon, north QLD |
| Spring Creek, Mowbray Valley, north QLD |
| Springfield, central QLD |
| Springfield, north QLD |
| Tanbar, south-west QLD |
| The Dip, north QLD |
| Vine Creek, north QLD |
| Wambiana, north QLD |
| Waterview, north QLD |
Wyandotte, north QLD |