The Blood Stained Hands of the Archers – Does QLD Really Want a Major Race Named After Accomplices to Murder?
January 1856 After local Aboriginal people had killed five station-hands at Mount Larcombe on Boxing Day 1855, several punitive missions were conducted by armed settlers. Lieutenant John Murray led these reprisals. A group of around 250 Aboriginal people residing in the area were tracked down and surrounded at a creek near the modern day township of […]