1838 killing of Indigenous Australians in New South Wales
"Myall Creek" redirects here. For the early Queensland settlement formerly known by this name, see Dalby, Queensland.
Myall Creek massacre
Date
10 June 1838; 185 years ago (10 June 1838)
Location
Myall Creek, New South Wales, Australia
Outcome
7 perpetrators convicted of murder and hanged
4 perpetrators acquitted
1 perpetrator never arrested
Deaths
28+
Accused
John Henry Fleming and 11 assigned convicts
Convicted
Charles Kilmeister, James Oates, Edward Foley, John Russell, John Johnstone, William Hawkins, and James Parry
The Myall Creek massacre was the killing of not less than thirty[1] unarmed Indigenous Australians by twelve colonists on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near the Gwydir River, in northern New South Wales.[2][3] After two trials, seven of the twelve colonists were found guilty of murder and hanged,[3] a verdict which sparked extreme controversy within New South Wales settler society.[4] The leader of the perpetrators, a free settler, John Henry Fleming, evaded arrest and was never tried. Four were never retried following the not guilty verdict of the first trial.[2][5]
The prosecutions, the only successful one ever conducted against Australian settlers accused of massacring Aboriginals, have been described more as akin to war crimes trials than a standard murder prosecution.[6] An editorial in one newspaper argued at length that "the murders... are, to a serious extent, chargeable upon us as a nation."[7]
^The Sydney Monitor 7 Dec 1838 & Danny Day by Terry Smyth – Penguin & Random Books 2016 p170
^ ab"Myall Creek massacre". National Museum of Australia. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
^ ab"Myall Creek Massacre and Memorial Site". Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. 25 June 2008. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013.
^Rogers, Thomas James; Bain, Stephen (3 February 2016). "Genocide and frontier violence in Australia". Journal of Genocide Research. 18 (1): 83–100. doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1120466. S2CID 147512803.
^Tedeschi, Mark (9 June 2023). "True heroes exposed the Myall Creek massacre. To our shame, we don't know their names". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^georgina.sinclair (20 June 2017). "Myall Creek murders 'state-sanctioned genocide'". Bingara. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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