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Black War & Settlement
Tasmania is now occupied with white people, and the Black wars last until 1830 and claim the lives of 600 aboriginals and 200 white settlers. The Black wars was a period of time in which there was violent conflict between the white settlers and the Aboriginals. The conflict started over the fights for land, the Aboriginals fought to keep their land and the settlers wanted to claim it. The conflict became so bad that it ended in the deaths of many people. -
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Massacres & Conflict
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Risdon Cove Massacre
Lieutenant William Moree, of the New South Wales Rum Corpes, orders to open fire at Risdon Cove Tasmania on a group of around 300 Aboriginal people. Between 30 and 60 Aboriginal people are killed. The event is tried to cover up by the lieutenant who claimed that only 3 or 4 people had been shot. The white settlers said in an account that is was big misunderstanding and that death was never intended, but the Aboriginal people believed they were under attack whilst out hunting. -
Aboriginals Killed in after they Attack Farms in Sydney
Aboriginal people attack farms on the edge of Sydney, Governor Macquarie sends a party to arrest the offenders they attacked a camp near Appin at night resulting in the death of 14 Aboriginals people. It is claimed that men, women and children were chased off a cliff to their death. In total the Aboriginals believed that over 14 people died. The deaths were caused due to the white settlers anger over the attacks from the Aboriginal people. -
Massacre at Bathurst
Martial law is proclaimed in the Bathurst area after 7 European White people are killed by Aboriginal people and conflict with them is now seen as a serious dangerous threat. Police and soldiers attack the Aboriginal people around 100 of them end up dead, this is event is known the ‘massacre at Bathurst’ or ‘the Bathurst war’. Conflict was now becoming out of hand more and more and the European people used the attack at Bathurst in NSW as a show of power. -
Massacre at Gravesend NSW
A massacre takes place at Gravesend in New South Wales and over 200 people were killed. At the time between 60 and 70 Aboriginal people were reported as dead. The event took place on Vinegar Hill which was a sight on Slaughterhouse Creek. There was only one European casualty who was speared in the leg.This European casualty was a Corporal. -
Myall Creek Massacre
The Myall Creek massacre occurs, 12 armed people from the colonies rounded up and violently killed 28 people out of a group of about 40 – 50 people being held at Henry Dangar’s station in Myall creek NSW. The massacre is believed to be pay back for an earlier event resulting in the deaths of women and children. The Myall Creek massacres was one of the worst and most violent massacres to take place in History and is still remembered each year on the 10th of June. -
Aboriginal Community Lost
A whole Aboriginal community is lost during a massacre at long lagoon, inland Queensland. There was becoming less and less Aboriginal people left in Australia, the white settlers were wiping them out fast so the death of a whole community (even if there wasn't many people in the community) is a great loss to the overall bigger Aboriginal community. -
Massacre in Emerald Queensland
Aboriginal people kill 19 European settlers near Emerald, Queensland. Around 170 Aboriginal people then ended up killed in retaliation. The conflict between the Europeans and the Aboriginals wasn't stopping anytime soon and there was still lots of killings going on around all of Australia. The Aboriginals were suffering most with these killings and loosing many of their people in mass numbers. -
Aboriginals Killed in the Kimberly, Western Australia
150 Aboriginal people are killed in the Kimberly, Western Australia after they resisted arrest. The Europeans were now very much in control of the land and how things would be run and the Aboriginals didn't like this therefor they would resist being arrested as they believed they didn't deserve it and thus ended up dead as a result. -
Kalkadoon Wars
the Kalkadoon wars take place in Queensland and last until 1890. Around 900 Kalkadoon people are killed trying to defend their land. This conflict started when the Europeans decided to move into and take over the land in and around Kalkadoon. In 1972 the fallen Kalkadoon people are recognised for their bravery and for fighting their rights of land. -
Former Aboriginal Prisoners Killed
19 former Aboriginal prisoners who had been freed by Jandamarra, Kimberley’s resistance fighter (who was also killed) are shot and killed. After so long the conflict between the Aboriginal people was still taking place and the Aboriginals still suffering the most.
