Some Known Frontier Conflicts in Queensland

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
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 Between January 1850 and August 1851, Commissioner Roderick Mitchell, with the help of Native Police, tried to put down resistance from the Mandandanji people against Europeans who were encroaching and taking Mandandanji lands. Violence continued. Many Aboriginal people were killed in a massacre near Yuleba Creek in March 1850.
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
March 1894	Mentana Station, Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD Cumjam arrested for the murder of a 60-year-old worker, Mr Ferguson, on Mentana Station held by Donald McIntyre. See for example, the Norman Chronicle, The North Queensland Register and the Brisbane Courier between 1894–1895. Whether Cumjam was guilty or not is so far unknown as is the outcome of his arrest. Interestingly, a few months before Ferguson's death, some survivors from the steamship, Kanahooka, that capsized off the Mitchell River, were able to make their way to Mentana Station through Kokobera country, despite fears that they might meet with 'hostility of the blacks.'
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 Roma Kelly tells the story of what happened on Bentinck Island in the 1900s to linguist Nicholas Evans in The McKenzie Massacre on Bentinck Island published in 2015: ‘In 1911 a man named McKenzie obtained a government lease which, according to Queensland law, gave him titlehold over all of Sweers Island and a large portion of Bentinck Island. In the 1980s Roma Kelly told linguist Nicholas Evans about the brutal massacre led by McKenzie in 1918 at Rukuthi, for which he was never punished.’
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