Massacres during the European Invasion - Images

"If you do not understand Racism-White Supremacy, what it is, how it works, everything you understand will only confuse you." - Neely Fuller Jr.

Massacres by settlers took place in most regions settled before the early twentieth century (Fig. 3: Australian Aborigines — War. [Calvert Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.])

Massacre: an illustration from the 1800s shows a group of white vigilantes in action. (Image: Illustrated Christian Weekly 24 Dec 1880)

The Myall Creek Massacre. Note the rope binding the Aboriginal people together and the little child on the back of her mother on the far right. Published in The Chronicles of Crime, 1841.

'Dispersing' in the Rainforest, in Black Police: A Story of Modern Australia by AJ Vogan (1889).

Rufus River Massacre (State Library of Victoria, IMP27/07/66/308, engraving by Samuel Calvert)

Sketch entitled "A deadly encounter" by H. Calvert, 1870

How the invaders documented their massacres - "It is OK to kill unlimited Aboriginals if you feel your stock is threatened"

The Waterloo massacre occurred 50kms south-west of Moree - Between 120 and 300 Aboriginal people of the Kamilaroi nation were shot by Major James Nunn - 'Contemporary sketch'

'Whiteout: Massacres of Aboriginals by European settlers were ignored in official histories for many generations' - Source: nyungah.org.au

Flying Foam Massacre occurred in 1868 on the just north of Murujuga (or Burrup Peninsula) - (Image by Carl Lumholtz, 1889) See: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/pdf/2014/flying-foam-massacre.pdf - CLICK TO EXPAND (FULL VIEW)

"If I shoot at blacks I shoot to kill. It does not do to play with them. Any man who would shoot a black in cold blood only to get his head would be nothing less than a murderer. Had I been lucky enough tohave killed my man Mr. Brockman would most certainly have had his head, and he may yet. If these blacks are not taught a very severe lesson they will kill a lot of people who may go on my tracks." From Melb 'Argus' 20 April 1909 - republished article - The explorer (Perth) WA

"... The blacks are very quiet here now, poor wretches. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. Men, women and children are shot whenever they can be met with ... Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick - Read More http://goo.gl/dlRPOg

Angus McMillan, who organised multiple massacres across the Gippsland region in Victoria, became a hero with the invaders and even had an electorate named after him. When the artist Annemieke Mien made the statue commemorating him, she sculpted two human skulls jammed in his saddlebags. It is now on display outside Wellington Shire Offices, in Sale. click for full size image

Angus McMillan, a Scottish Highlander was credited with founding Gippsland in Victoria by leading hunting parties to track down and massacre groups of First Nations people. He became a hero in Vic and NSW, and is still seen as a heroic explorer. Here is a sample of plaques, monuments and statues made in his honour.

28th October marks the anniversary of the terrible Pinjarra massacre, a grim day in Australian history. It took place in 1834 in Western Australia in the Murray region in the south-west. It had been inhabited for many thousands of years by the Bindjareb Nyungar. That all changed in 1829 when white settlers arrived in Western Australia under the leadership of Captain James Stirling to establish the Swan River Colony. Stirling proclaimed the Nyungar people British subjects and therefore subject to British law

Caption: Ambushed 1908 - Queensland Xmas Suppliment

Whites preparing to attack an Aborigines' camp, in S. T. Gill's undated watercolour The Avengers, reproduced in Roger Milliss's Waterloo Creek. (Mitchell Library)

Australian Aborigines Slaughtered by Convicts, by Phiz, The Book of Remarkable Trials, 1840; Chronicles of Crime V. II, 1841

Constable Vigo (on left) returns to Oodnadatta with camel team and five aborigines as prisoners. Article: http://tiny.cc/trove-1933-article

This sketch depicts the Waterloo Creek massacre (also known as the Slaughterhouse Creek massacre), part of the conflict between mounted police and Indigenous Australians in 1838. Godfrey Charles Mundy/National Library of Australia

Aboriginal-pearlers.-Photo-via-Broome-Historical-Society-and-Museum-website-courtesy-of-Pauline-Smith-Teesdale.