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Tag: Donald Macquarie

Getting Away with Murder: Who Was Really Responsible for the Deaths of Hugh and Donald Macquarie?

09/14/2018.Reading time 17 minutes.

By Peter Bell and Lynley Wallis The remote nature of colonial Qld meant it was possible not to see another human being for weeks, if not months. This isolation was one reason why squatters sometimes had no qualms about dispensing illegal “colonial justice” to Aboriginal people (although after the Myall Creek trials of 1838 squatters […]

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