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I Smell Pennies on 18/01/2023 - 12:11 australiaday.com.au (2369 clicks)
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List of all Australia Day events this year that are free for you and/or to enjoy, and it lolks like we have a record of free events compared to previous years.

It took me countless hours, days and night to make this post (not sure if I did TA a favour or not - I hope he hasn't started searching), going through every website possible but I’m sure I have missed HEAPS despite this (please show me some love ❤️). If I can help at least one of you get a free meal or entertainment for Australia Day then I've done my job. Hope you have a fun and happy celebration.

NSW Australia Day Events:

Council Suburb Location What's On?
Bathurst Council Manning Free Pool Entry
Bathurst Regional Council Bathurst Free Pool Entry & Free Kids Activities
Bogan Shire Council Nyngan TBA
Bourke Shire Council Bourke Free Pool Entry (+ CASH PRIZES) & Free BBQ Breakfast
Brewarrina Shire Council Brewarrina Free BBQ Breakfast
Bungendore Council Bungendore BBQ (Unsure if free)
Cabonne Council Borenore Free BBQ Breakfast
Cabonne Council Cargo Free Morning Tea Breakfast
Cabonne Council Cudal Free BBQ Breakfast
Cabonne Council Cumnock Free BBQ Breakfast
Cabonne Council Eugwora Free BBQ Lunch
Cabonne Council Manildra Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Lunch
Cabonne Council Molong Free BBQ Breakfast, Damper Competition, Children Activities
Cabonne Council Mullion Creek Free BBQ Breakfast
Cabonne Council Yeoval
City of Parramatta Council Rosehill Free BBQ Lunch
City of Ryde Meadowbank Free BBQ Lunch (first 1500 people)
Dubbo Regional Council Dubbo Free BBQ Breakfast
Dubbo Regional Council Wellington Free BBQ Breakfast
Fairfield City Council Fairfield Free Pool Entry
Fairfield City Council Prairiewood Free Pool Entry
Federation Council Mulwala Free BBQ Breakfast & Coffee
Gilgandra Shire Council Gilgandra Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast
Goulburn Mulwaree Council Goulbourn Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Water Activities
Greater Hume Council Brocklesby Free BBQ Breakfast
Gunnedah Shire Council Gunnedah Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast, CASH PRIZES
Hay Shire Council Hay Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast
Inverell Shire Council Ashford Free Pool Entry & Free BBQ Breakfast
Inverell Shire Council Inverell BBQ Breakfast (GOLD COIN DONATION)
Kiama Council Kiama Free Pool Entry (Jamberoo Pool & Kiama Leisure Centre), Free Breakfast BBQ (unsure if free)
Ku-ring-gai Council Ku-ring-gai Pool Party incl. BBQ, giveaways + more (gold coin donation)
Kyogle Council Bonalbo Free Pool Entry
Kyogle Council Woodenbong Free Pool Entry
Leeton Shire Council Leeton Free Pool Entry + More
Lithgow City Council Lithgow Free Pool Entry
Maitland City Council Maitland Free Pool Entry (TBA)
Narrabri Shire Council Narrabri TBA
Narrandera Shire Council Grong Grong BBQ (Unsure if free)
Narrandera Shire Council Narrandera/Lake Talbot Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Kayaking
Northern Beaches Council Manly Free Pool Entry + Pool Party
Northern Beaches Council Newport Beach Free BBQ Breakfast (TBA)
Northern Beaches Council Warringah Free Pool Entry
Orange City Council Orange TBA
Parkes Shire Council Parkes TBA
Parkes Shire Council Peak Hill Free Pool Entry
Penrith City Council Penrith Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast
Penrith City Council St Marys Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast
Port Stephens Council Karuah Free Fireworks 9pm + More
Port Stephens Council Mallabula Free Pool Entry (Tilligerry Aquatic Centre)
Port Stephens Council Raymond Terrace Free Pool Entry (Free BBQ Breakfast TBA)
Shellharbour Council Lake Illawarra Free concert
Snowy Valleys Council Adelong Free BBQ Breakfast
Snowy Valleys Council Batlow TBA
Snowy Valleys Council Tumbarumba Free Pool Entry & Party
Snowy Valleys Council Tumut Free Pool Entry & Party
Sutherland Shire Council Caringbah Free Pool Entry
Sutherland Shire Council Cronulla (Beach) Free 9pm Fireworks, Performing Artists incl. Samantha Jade
Sutherland Shire Council Engadine Free Pool Entry
Sutherland Shire Council Sutherland Free Pool Entry
Tamworth Regional Council Kootingal BBQ (unsure if free)
Tamworth Regional Council Tamworth Free BBQ Breakfast (Egg, Sauasage, Bacon Rolls)
Tamworth Regional Council Woolomin BBQ (unsure if free)
Upper Hunter Shire Council Merriwa Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Lunch, Snow Cones, Entertainment
Upper Hunter Shire Council Murrurundi Free Pool Entry
Upper Hunter Shire Council Scone Free Pool Entry, BBQ Breakfast (unsure if free)
Urulla Council Uralla Free BBQ Breakfast (Kids under 12 only; $10 for ages 13+), Possible Free Pool Entry
Walgett Shire Council Collarenebri Free Pool Entry, Free Food + Ice Blocks & Refreshments, Giveaways + More
Walgett Shire Council Lightning Ridge Free Food + Ice Blocks & Refreshments, Giveaways + More
Walgett Shire Council Lightning Ridge Free BBQ Breakfast
Wollondilly Shire Council Picton Free BBQ Breakfast, Free BBQ Lunch, Free Tea/Coffee/Lamingtons, Free Family Entertainment @ Hume Oval (Incl. Free Amusement Rides, Face Painting, Tattoos, Balloon Twisting, Magic Show)

VIC Australia Day Events:

**Please see pinned comment at the top of the comments section

QLD Australia Day Events:

Council Suburb Location What's On?
Barcaldine Regional Council. Aramac Free BBQ Dinner
Barcaldine Regional Council. Barcaldine Free BBQ Dinner (Pool?)
Barcaldine Regional Council. Muttaburra Free BBQ Breakfast
Boulia Shire Council Boulia Free BBQ Lunch
Brisbane City Council Acacia Ridge Free Food (Lunch), Free Rides + More
Brisbane City Council Stones Corner @ Langlands Park Pool Free Pool Entry (Free BBQ TBA)
Bundaberg Regional Council Bargara Free BBQ Lunch
Bundaberg Regional Council Childers Free Pool Entry (TBC)
Burke Shire Council Burketown Free Food, Drinks, Waterslides
Cairns Regional Council Babinda Creek Free BBQ Breakfast
Cairns Regional Council Cairns North Free BBQ Breakfast (TBA), Free Pool Entry (Tobruk Pool)
Cairns Regional Council Smithfield Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry
Cassowary Coast Regional Council Cardwell Free Pool Entry (Pool Party), BBQ Lunch (unsure if free)
Cassowary Coast Regional Council Innisfail Free Pool Entry (Pool Party), BBQ Lunch (unsure if free)
Cassowary Coast Regional Council Mission Beach Free Pool Entry (Pool Party), BBQ Lunch (unsure if free)
Cassowary Coast Regional Council Tully Free Pool Entry (Pool Party), BBQ Lunch (unsure if free)
Central Highlights Regional Council Blackwater Free BBQ Breakfast
Central Highlights Regional Council Capella Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry (TBA)
Central Highlights Regional Council Emerald Free BBQ Breakfast
Central Highlights Regional Council Rolleston Free BBQ Breakfast
Central Highlights Regional Council Tieri Free BBQ Breakfast
Charters Towers Regional Council Charter Towers Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry + Party
City of Gold Coast Mudgeeraba Free Pool Entry, Iceblocks
City of Gold Coast Oxenford Free BBQ Breakfast
Cloncurry Shire Council Cloncurry Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Party, Free BBQ Lunch + Ice-cream
Douglas Shire Council Port Douglas Free BBQ Breakfast
Flinders Shire Council Hughenden Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Picnic BBQ Pack (8-11:30am), Fireworks
Frase Coast Regional Council Burrum Heads BBQ Breakfast (gold coin donation)
Gympie Regional Council Gympie Free Pool Entry
Gympie Regional Council Kandanga Free Pool Entry (TBC)
Gympie Regional Council Kilkivan Free Pool Entry (TBC)
Gympie Regional Council Tin Can Bay Free Pool Entry (TBC)
Hinchinbrook Shire Council Hinchinbrook Free Pool Entry (Pool Party), Free BBQ Lunch
Hinchinbrook Shire Council Ingham Free Pool Entry + Party, Free BBQ Lunch
Ipswich City Council Bundamba Free Pool Entry
Ipswich City Council Goodna Free Pool Entry
Ipswich City Council Leichhardt Free Pool Entry
Ipswich City Council Rosewood Free Pool Entry
Isaac Regional Council Carmila Free BBQ Lunch
Isaac Regional Council Clermont Free BBQ Dinner
Isaac Regional Council Dysart Free Pool Entry
Isaac Regional Council Glenden Free Pool Entry
Isaac Regional Council Middlemount Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast
Isaac Regional Council Nebo Free Pool Entry
Isaac Regional Council St Lawrence Free BBQ Lunch
Longreach Regional Council Ilfracombe Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Lunch, Free BBQ Dinner
Longreach Regional Council Isisford Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry
Longreach Regional Council Longreach Free BBQ Breakfast, Free BBQ Lunch
Maranoa Regional Council Injune Free BBQ Lunch (TBC)
Maranoa Regional Council Mitchell/Booringa area Free Pool Entry
Maranoa Regional Council Warroo Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry
Moreton Bay Regional Council Bramble Bay Free BBQ Lunch, Meat Trays
Moreton Bay Regional Council Lawnton Free Pool Entry
Moreton Bay Regional Council Sandstone Point Free Entry Slip & Slide (but $2/slide 50m mega slide)
Mount Isa City Council Mount Isa / Parkside Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ Breakfast
North Burnett Regional Council Eidsvold Free BBQ Breakfast + more
Paroo Shire Council Cunnamulla Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry
Paroo Shire Council Eulo Free BBQ Dinner
Paroo Shire Council Wyandra Free BBQ Dinner
Quilpie Shire Council (BBQ TBC) Quilpie Free Pool Entry (Pool Party) (TBC)
Rockhampton Regional Council Frenchville Pool Party ($2.50 Entry; Includes Free Mini Golf & Free Fall Slide)
Rockhampton Regional Council Stanwell Free BBQ Lunch + more
South Burnett Regional Council Wondai Free BBQ Breakfast
Toowoomba Regional Council Cambooya Free BBQ Breakfast + more
Toowoomba Regional Council Cecil Plains Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Pool Entry
Toowoomba Regional Council Clifton Free BBQ Breakfast + more
Toowoomba Regional Council Crows Nest BBQ Breakfast + Drinks (gold coin donation)
Toowoomba Regional Council Goombungee Free BBQ Breakfast + more
Toowoomba Regional Council Millmerran Free BBQ Breakfast + more
Toowoomba Regional Council Pittsworth BBQ Breakfast (unsure if free)
Toowoomba Regional Council Rosalie Free BBQ Breakfast + more
Tweed Shire Council Murwillumbah TICKET BOOKING REQ (Free Pool Entry, Free BBQ, Free Ice Cream + More)
Whitsunday Regional Council Proserpine Free BBQ Lunch + more
Winton Shire Council Winton Free BBQ Breakfast

SA Australia Day Events:

Council Suburb Location What's On?
Campbelltown City Council Rostrevor Free BBQ Lunch
City of Charles Sturt Seaton Free BBQ Lunch
City of Playford Elizabeth Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Rides/Games + More
City of Port Lincoln Port Lincoln BBQ Breakfast (gold coin donation; incl bacon & eggs, fruits, juice))
City of Salisbury Salisbury Park Free BBQ Breakfast, Free Water Slides + More
City of Victor Harbor Victor Harbor Free BBQ Breakfast
Coorong District Council Sherlock Free BBQ Dinner (TBA)
District Council of Coober Pedy SA Coober Pedy Free Pool Entry & BBQ
Karoonda East Murray District Council Mantung BBQ Lunch (unsure if free)
Naracoorte Lucindale Council Lucindale Free BBQ Lunch (TBA)
TBA SA Roxby Downs Free Pool Entry & BBQ Breakfast
The Barossa Council Tanunda Free BBQ Breakfast

TAS Australia Day Events:

Council Suburb Location What's On?
Circular Head Council Circular Head Free BBQ Breakfast (TBC)
Derwent Valley Council New Norfolk Free BBQ Lunch
George Town Council George Town Free Pool Entry (Pool Party; Registration REQ), Free BBQ Breakfast
Kentish Council Circular Head BBQ Breakfast (booking req, unsure if free)
King Island Council Currie Free $5 to spend on food
Northern Midlands Council TBA
Entertainment Australia Day Barbeque Breakfast Concert Lunch Music Swimming Pool

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closed Comments

                  • NobalaKoba on 19/01/2023 - 10:16
                    -1

                    @xoom: Ah yes, the American culture of the 1500s Scottish and Irish tradition of trick or treating.

                    • xoom on 19/01/2023 - 10:42
                      +2

                      @NobalaKoba: We get it. Its a bastardised tradition. Point is we dont want it here. Where it came from or it backstory or origin we dont care.

                      • NobalaKoba on 19/01/2023 - 10:52

                        @xoom: Who is 'we' in this context?

                        Clearly it's not the trick-or-treaters or the others who hand out the treats.

                        Trick or treating in costumes has been done since the 1500s, how exactly has it been bastardised?

                        Should we stop with Christmas and Easter while we're at it? They're not Australian.

        • StingyBritches on 26/01/2023 - 10:47
          +1

          Why all this “left” nonsense?
          Many “right” people I know also challenge the Australia Day date.

      • doobes on 18/01/2023 - 15:38
        +1

        Neanderthals out in force.

      • chadleyshe on 18/01/2023 - 15:55
        -3

        Change the date.

        • King Tightarse on 18/01/2023 - 16:06
          +7

          …said the Neo-Marxist

        • Jessie Ryder on 19/01/2023 - 12:37
          +5

          No, polling has suggested Australia does not want the date changed.

        • Cheap Rich Guy on 19/01/2023 - 23:47
          +7

          Accept the date and get over it.

      • hamwhisperer on 18/01/2023 - 17:41
        +2

        Yep, being woke is fine, within reason, it's considerate thoughtful and trying to be positive, but it's become something else of stupidity now.

        It's going to go out of fasion sooner or later.

    • cookie2 on 23/01/2023 - 21:27

      Really? Would you really say that to someone? Do you think you should just go find something useful to do?

  • pharcyde on 18/01/2023 - 14:14
    +3

    God Bless Australia, and God Bless a good bargain!

    • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 14:25
      -4

      The church is that way. ——>

      • easternculture on 18/01/2023 - 14:43
        +7

        Which way is the mosque. Inshallah good bargain, allahuakbar

      • pharcyde on 18/01/2023 - 15:01
        -4

        Please leave bigoted comments at the door. Very distasteful.

  • rompastompa on 18/01/2023 - 14:24
    +6

    Other free events in WA (may or may not include free food/pools):

    0530-TBA [https://allevents.in/mildura/2023-australia-day/200023859571016)
    0730-1100 Waroona Memorial Hall, Bunbury Shire of Waroona
    0800-1030 Des Penman Reserve. Nollamara City of Stirling
    0800-1030 Phil Renkins Centre, 59 Lisford Ave,Two Rocks Yanchep Two Rocks Recreation Community Association
    0800-1100 City of Bayswater Civic Centre, 61 Broun Avenue, Morley City of Bayswater
    0800-1200 Percy Doyle Reserve City of Joondalup
    0800-1200 Coogee Beach Reserve City of Cockburn
    0900-1400 Shelley Beach Foreshore Park City of Canning
    1400-1900 Thornlie Community, 14 Glenbrook rd Thornlie Australian Arab Association
    1400-TBA 6 Miami Beach Prom Joondalup Sports Association
    1600-2000 Briggs Upper Oval, Mead Street, Byford Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale
    1700-2130 Minnawarra and Memorial Parks, Jull Street, Armadale City of Armadale
    1700-TBA Busselton Jetty Busselton Jetty

    • I Smell Pennies on 18/01/2023 - 14:45

      Thank you, I will update this into the post later today

    • rompastompa on 18/01/2023 - 14:55

      0630-0930 Sorrento SLSC Car Park, Sorrento Davey Real Estate, Facebook Event
      0630-0930 Opposite North Beach Shops, West Coast Hwy, North Beach Davey Real Estate, Facebook Event
      0630-0930 Brighton Beach Car Park (South of pool), Scarborough Davey Real Estate, Facebook Event
      0730-1000 Corrigin Recreation & Events Centre Shire of Corrigin
      0800-1100 Centennial Pioneer Park Amphitheatre, Gosnells City of Gosnells
      1000-1300 Perry Lakes Reserve, Floreat Town of Cambridge
      1700-2045 Churchill Park, Rockingham Foreshore City of Rockingham

      Paid events:

      0700-0900 Harvey Recreation and Cultural Centre (Tom Latch Drive, Harvey) Shire of Harvey - Children $2, Adults $5
      0800-TBA Binningup Country Club, Lakes Parade Binningup Country Club - Children $5, Adults $10
      0700-TBA Tom Pearson Pavilion, Brunswick Brunswick Junction Lions Club - Gold Coin Donation
      1730-2100 ANZAC Club, 28 St Georges Tce, Perth ANZAC Club Children $40, Adults $95

      WA Fireworks (TBC on next released schedule):

      20:00 City of Armadale Car Park, Orchard Ave, Armadale
      20:00 Ashfield Reserve, Guildford Rd Ashfield
      20:00 Belmont Raceway, Goodwood Parade, Burswood
      20:00 Langley Park, Swan River, Perth (Event 1500-2100) City of Light Show
      20:00 Val Street Jetty, Rockingham

    • AdModnar on 19/01/2023 - 00:43
      +1

      WA (or very close to what is now Western Australia) was explicitly excluded from the land that was claimed…
      To give the day its proper "historical" title, matching the name of what was said in the speech by Captain Phillip, we should call it New South Wales Day…

    • Pcoder on 18/01/2023 - 14:30
      +4

      Um, do you actually know the First fleet actually arrived on the 18th of January (today), so facts are a little absent from a lot of peoples minds.

      • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 14:37

        If the date isn't celebrating NSW being claimed for the British colony, could you please enlighten me as to what it is a celebration for?

        • jv on 18/01/2023 - 15:39
          +9

          please enlighten me as to what it is a celebration for?

          the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia…

          Manning Clark noted that on January 26, 1808, the 'anniversary of the foundation of the colony' was observed in the traditional manner with 'drinking and merriment'

          and thus the tradition continues…

        • cookie2 on 23/01/2023 - 21:29

          If you don't know this, what the hell r u arguing against?

    • King Tightarse on 18/01/2023 - 14:32
      +8

      Yaawn. Australia was settled NOT invaded.
      This is legally enshrined in the Mabo decision. I now the bumper sticker slogan 'invaded' sounds snappy but its just not true. It is easy to read for yourself if you are curious to know the truth.
      Settled.

      • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 14:35

        Uh-huh, and would Russian courts admit that theyre fighting an unjustified war?

        • King Tightarse on 18/01/2023 - 14:47
          +15

          That is a ridiculous false equivalence but I will bite: you do realize that there was never a war between Australia and the British, right? There was never a united Indigenous nation. There was never an invasion.
          Not my words but well put:

          "The invading force that "conquered" Australia was a fleet of 11 British vessels which landed in Sydney carrying 245 British Marines and 1100 malnourished men and women in chains. This is the "invasion force' who were supposedly responsible for conquering a continent the size of the contiguous United States of America and enslaving a population of over half a million hostile natives (sic). An impressive victory one would think. Of course it's not true. The British were there to grow wool and wheat and they brought their own slaves (white ones of course) and the soldiers were there to control the convict slaves. The Governor had strict orders from the King to cooperate and partner with the native population to ensure the mission's success. Aboriginal people were largely left to their own devices and excluded from the activities of the British… unless they got in the way."

          No war. No invasion.
          The legally tested, correct term is "settled".
          Australia was settled, not invaded

          • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 15:01
            +1

            @King Tightarse: Do you work for an MLM on the side, constantly trying to convince people it's not a pyramid, but a triangle of opportunity?

            Everyone knows what happened, and it was a slaughter and many, many state sanctioned murders.

            • King Tightarse on 18/01/2023 - 15:25
              +4

              @NobalaKoba: Yes, there were murders, yes there were massacres. Mostly settler and township clashes.
              No, there was not an invasion. Australia was settled. 'Settled' and 'invaded' are different terms with different meanings
              Definition of language is exquisitely important

              • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 18:15

                @King Tightarse: Here's some of the recorded massacres that occurred due to the 'settlement' before federation:

                New South Wales
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                1790s
                Edit
                July 1791. Governor Arthur Phillip wrote in his own journal that he granted 27 ex-convicts allotments of land at Prospect Hill and The Ponds. He gave them muskets which were utilised to shoot at Aboriginal Australians in the area. In retaliation, some of the British huts were burnt down. Arthur Philip then deployed soldiers to the area who "dispersed" about 50 Aboriginal Australians. Furthermore, as the allotments of land were separated by bushland which helped in "concealing the natives", the Governor ordered the woods to be cleared so that the "natives could find no shelter".[13]
                April 1794. At Toongabbie an armed party of settlers pursued a group of Aboriginal Australians who were taking corn from the settlers' farms. They killed four, bringing back the severed head of one as proof of their exploits.[14]
                September 1794. British settlers in the Hawkesbury River area killed seven Bediagal people in reprisal for the theft of clothing and provisions.[15] Some of the surviving children of this raid were taken by the settlers and detained as farm labourers. One boy, who was considered a spy, was later dragged through a fire, thrown into the river and shot dead.[16]
                May 1795. Conflict in the Hawkesbury region continued and following the alleged killing of two settlers, Lieutenant Governor William Paterson ordered two officers and 66 soldiers to "destroy as many as they could meet with … in the hope of striking terror, to erect gibbets in different places, whereon the bodies of all they might kill were to be hung". Seven or eight Bediagal people were killed.[17][18] A crippled man, some children and five women (one being heavily pregnant) were taken to Sydney as prisoners. One of the women and her baby had serious gunshot wounds. The child died not long after, as did the newborn baby of the pregnant woman.[19]
                September 1795. In the lower parts of the Hawkesbury, British settlers conducted an armed expedition against local Aboriginal Australians, killing five and taking a number prisoner, again including a badly wounded child.[20]
                March 1797. After Aboriginal Australians killed two British settlers, a large punitive expedition was organised which surprised and dispersed a native camp of about 100 people, killing an unknown number. The armed group then returned to Parramatta to rest. Pemulwuy, a noted Aboriginal resistance leader of the early frontier, followed them into the town, demanding vengeance for the dispersal. A skirmish (known as the Battle of Parramatta) then occurred between Pemulwuy's group and a collection of British soldiers and settlers. One of the settlers was injured, but at least five Aboriginal Australians were shot dead with many more wounded, including Pemulwuy.[21]
                March 1799. Henry Hacking was ordered by Governor John Hunter to investigate claims of British sailors being trapped by Aboriginal Australians at the mouth of the Hunter River to the north of the colony. Hacking encountered a group of Awabakal people on the south side of the river who informed him that the sailors had left earlier on foot, endeavouring to walk back to Sydney. Hacking did not believe them and became agitated, shooting dead four Awabakal men. The sailors later arrived in Sydney having walked the distance to return.[22]
                1800s
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                March 1806. A group of Yuin people, resident to what the British named Twofold Bay, attempted to forcibly remove a gang of eleven sealers encamped on their land. After spears had been thrown, the sealers opened fire on them with muskets, killing nine, with the remainder fleeing. The bodies were hung overnight from nearby trees, in an attempt to intimidate the other Yuin.[23]
                1810s
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                1816. Appin massacre. New South Wales Governor Macquarie sent soldiers against the Gundungurra and Dharawal people on their lands along the Cataract River, a tributary of the Nepean River (south of Sydney), in reprisal for violent conflicts with white settlers (in which several died) in the adjoining Nepean and Cowpastures districts, during a time of drought.[24] The punitive expedition split in two at Bent's Basin, with one group moving south-west against the Gundungurra, and the other moving south-east against the Dharawal. On 17 April, at around 1 am, this latter group of soldiers arrived on horseback at a camp of Dharawal people near Cataract Gorge (Broughton Pass). At least 16 indigenes were killed by shooting, and many other men, women and children were driven to fall from the cliffs of the gorge to their deaths below.[25][26]: 7 [27]
                1818. Minnamurra River massacre. Local settlers attacked and killed at least six members of the Wodiwodi people camped on the banks of the Minnamurra River on the pretext that they were retrieving two muskets lent to a group of Aboriginal people living on the river.
                1820s
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                1824. Bathurst massacre. Following the killing of seven Europeans by Aboriginal people around Bathurst, New South Wales, and a battle between three stockmen and a warband over stolen cattle which left 16 Aboriginal Australians dead, Governor Brisbane declared martial law to restore order and was able to report a cessation of hostilities in which 'not one outrage was committed under it, neither was a life sacrificed or even Blood spilt'. Part of the tribe trekked down to Parramatta to attend the Governor's annual Reconciliation Day.[28][29]
                1826. Around 20 Birpai men, women and children at Blackmans Point. There is no single written account, but the diary of Henry Lewis Wilson, who oversaw convicts in the area, relates that after two convicts sent to work at Blackmans Point were killed by Indigenous men, a party of soldiers "got round the blacks and shot a great many of them, captured a lot of women and used them for a immoral purpose and then shot them. The offending soldiers were sent to Sydney to be tried, but managed to escape punishment.". Historian Lyndall Ryan, after studying other evidence, thinks that the Blackmans Point event referred to by Wilson involved around 20 people, but other massacres in the area may have caused the deaths of up to 300 people.[30]
                1827. 12 Gringai Aboriginal Australians were shot dead for killing in reprisal a convict who had shot one of their camp dogs dead.[31]
                1827. A group of 17 colonists led by Benjamin Singleton shot dead 6 Gamilaraay men near what is now Willow Tree on the Liverpool Plains.[32]
                1830s
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                18 December 1832. Joseph Berryman, overseer at Sydney Stephen's Murramarang land acquisition near Bawley Point, shot dead four Aboriginal Australians in retaliation for the spearing of some cattle. Of those shot, two were an elderly couple and another was a pregnant woman.[33]
                1835. Settlers from the Williams Valley are said in a late report (1922) to have surrounded a Gringai camp and forced them all over a cliff.[31] A surviving band of the same group was hunted down and killed at the Bowman River. Unburied, their bones could be seen there for years.[34]
                11 July 1835. The expedition team of Thomas Mitchell, during their journey to the Darling River, fatally shot two Aboriginal Australians after fight over a kettle. Additional shots were fired at the fleeing tribe as they swam across the creek. Mitchell said that the shooting occurred "without much or any effect".[35]
                27 May 1836. Mount Dispersion massacre. Major Thomas Mitchell felt threatened by a group of around 150 Aboriginal people and divided his expedition team into two groups with about eight men in each group. The first group drove the Aboriginal people into the Murray River, forcing them with gunfire to enter the water to attempt escape. The second group of armed men then reunited with the first and commenced firing at the Aboriginal Australians as they swam across the river. For around five minutes, 16 men fired approximately eighty rounds of ammunition at the fleeing Aboriginal Australians.[36] A government inquiry was organised into the massacre after Mitchell published his account of the incident, but little consequence came of it.[37] Mitchell subsequently named the area where the shootings occurred Mount Dispersion.[38]
                26 January 1838. The Waterloo Creek massacre, also known as the Australia Day massacre. A New South Wales Mounted Police detachment, despatched by acting Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass, attacked an encampment of Kamilaroi people at a place called Waterloo Creek in remote bushland.[39] Official reports spoke of between 8 and 50 killed.[40] The missionary Lancelot Threlkeld set the number at 120 as part of his campaign to garner support for his Mission.[41] Threlkeld later claimed Major Nunn boasted they had killed 200 to 300 black Australians, a statement endorsed by historian Roger Milliss.[42] Other estimates range from 40 to 70.[43]
                1838. Myall Creek massacre – 10 June: 28 people killed at Myall Creek near Bingara, New South Wales. This was the first Aboriginal massacre for which white European and black African settlers were successfully prosecuted. Several colonists had previously been found not guilty by juries despite the weight of evidence and one colonist found guilty had been pardoned when his case was referred to Britain for sentencing. Eleven men were charged with murder but were initially acquitted by a jury. On the orders of the Governor, a new trial was held using the same evidence and seven of the eleven men were found guilty of the murder of one Aboriginal child and hanged. In his book, Blood on the Wattle, journalist Bruce Elder says that the successful prosecutions resulted in pacts of silence becoming a common practice to avoid sufficient evidence becoming available for future prosecutions.[44] Another effect, as one contemporary Sydney newspaper reported, was that poisoning Aboriginal people became more common as "a safer practice". Many massacres were to go unpunished due to these practices,[44] as what is variously called a "conspiracy", "pact" or "code of silence" fell over the killings of Aboriginal people.[45][46][47]
                1838. In about the middle of the year at Gwydir River. A "war of extirpation", according to local magistrate Edward Denny Day, was waged all along the Gwydir River in mid-1838. "Aborigines in the district were repeatedly pursued by parties of mounted and armed stockmen, assembled for the purpose, and that great numbers of them had been killed at various spots".[48]
                28 November 1838. Charles Eyles, William Allen and James Dunn (employees of Gwydir River squatter Robert Crawford) shot dead nine Gamilaraay people just east of present-day Moree. They attempted to burn and bury the remains but these were found a couple of months later. All three men had warrants out for their arrest but the Attorney-General, John Hubert Plunkett, elected not to take the case to trial, ending any possibility of prosecution.[49]
                1838. In July 1838 men from the Bowman, Ebden and Yaldwyn stations in search of stolen sheep shot and killed 14 Aboriginal people at a campsite near the confluence of the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers in New South Wales.[50]
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                June 1841. Major Henry Robert Oakes, the Crown Lands Commissioner for the Macleay River District was returning from an overland expedition to the Clarence River with his Border Police troopers, when they encountered some strong Aboriginal resistance. Around 20 Aboriginal people were killed and a Government enquiry was proposed.[51] Oakes' paramilitary brigade had previously shot dead at least three Aboriginal people at William Forster's nearby pastoral run in the preceding year.[52]
                27 August 1841. The Rufus River massacre, various estimates – between 30 and 40 deaths.[53]
                24 October 1841. British pastoralists William Lee, Joseph Moulder and Andrew Kerr, together with troopers of the New South Wales Mounted Police conducted a massacre of at least twelve Aboriginal people at Duck Creek on the Bogan River after local Aboriginal men killed three stockmen there.[54][55][56]
                1842. Evans Head massacre or "Goanna Headland massacre", the 1842/1843 European squatters & sawyers massacre of 100 Bundjalung nation tribes people at Evans Head, was variously said to have been in retaliation for the killing of "a few sheep", or the killing of "five European men" from the 1842 "Pelican Creek tragedy".[57]: 75–78 
                From 1838 to 1851. during the spread of pastoral stations along the Macleay River, it is estimated that some 15 massacres took place of the Indigenous peoples of this Djangadi area.[58]
                29 November 1847. Kangaroo Creek poisoning. Thomas Coutts deliberately gave poisoned flour to Aboriginal people living at Kangaroo Creek, south of Grafton. Twenty-three people died in agony and Coutts was sent for trial in Sydney, but the strong evidence against him was deemed insufficient for the trial to proceed.[59]
                April 1849. Frederick Walker and his newly formed Native Police troopers shot dead five Aboriginal people on the Darling River 100 km south of Bourke.[60]
                1849. Massacre of Muruwari people at Hospital Creek in Brewarrina district. There are differing accounts of this event, but one alleges that, a white stockman at Walcha Hut (now called Brewarrina), abducted an Aboriginal woman. The stockman was warned by the woman's fellow tribe members to release her. When the stockman refused to release the woman, they were both killed.[61][62]
                1849. Massacre of Aboriginal people at Butchers Tree near Brewarrina, along the Barwon River, and on the Narran River.[62]
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                1854. East Ballina massacre. Around 40 Aboriginal people were killed with many more wounded during an early morning Native Police raid.[63]
                1890s
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                7 June 1895. John Frederick Kelly, an older white man, was charged with manslaughter of Tommy Doyle, one of six Aboriginal people killed at Fernmount near Bellingen, by giving him a bottle of aconitine, claiming it was "fiery rum", and others subsequently partook of the substance and another five died. A jury found Kelly not guilty. In his defence he claimed to have taken some himself and suffered similar symptoms.[64]
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                Further information: Tasmania § Removal of Aboriginal people, and Black War
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                1804. Conflicting evidence of eyewitnesses indicated that either three Aboriginal Tasmanians were killed or "a great many were slaughtered and wounded" on 3 May 1804 at Risdon Cove when a large number came upon the 75–80 colonists there.[65][66][67]
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                1827. Near Hadspen on the property of Thomas Beams, Aboriginal people surrounded his hut. In response to his firing at the Aboriginal people Beams' neighbours arrived on foot and horseback. A "war party" was organised and a search conducted. At 10 o'clock at night the glow of a fire was seen and the war party surrounded the Aboriginal encampment. At 3 am fourteen muskets opened fire, the camp was rushed and eleven Aboriginal people were killed. Only one escaped.[68]
                1828. At Circular Head in Northwest Tasmania the Van Diemen's Land Company dispatched the cutter Fanny in response to the spearing of sheep. The Company's Chief Agent, Edward Curr, sent four shepherds along with the cutter's captain and crew in response. A resident of Curr's homestead, Rosalie Hare, described in her journal "…while we remained at Circular Head there were several accounts of considerable amounts of Natives having been shot by them (the Company's men), they wishing to extirpate them entirely, if possible. The master of the Company's cutter Fanny, assisted by four shepherds and his crew, surprised a party and killed 12."[69]
                1828. On 10 February – Cape Grim massacre, Cape Grim, Van Diemen's Land. Four shepherds of the substantial Van Diemen's Land Company ambushed and killed 30 Pennemukeer Aboriginal people. Company men had killed another 12 Aboriginal people only days earlier.[70][71][72] Historian Keith Windschuttle has disputed the numbers and other aspects of the event.[73]
                1828. On the 6th of December elements of the 40th Regiment together with two constables, Danvers and Holmes, surrounded a group of Aboriginal people during the night at Tooms Lake. In a dawn attack they killed a number of Aboriginal people variously described as 'several' or ten or sixteen. The bodies were then placed in a pile and burned. Attacking at first light and burning the corpses was to become standard procedure as the frontier moved across Australia.[68]
                In August 1829. John Batman was one of several groups conducting roving sweeps for Aboriginal people. He employed Aboriginal men from the Sydney area to help track and attack the local clans, a system that had proven successful on the mainland and that would continue and eventually evolve into the Native Mounted Police.[74][75][76] Batman's patrol came across a large Aboriginal camp of men, women and children at night. Their approach was disturbed by the camp dogs whereupon they opened fire and rushed the camp. They captured a woman and a child but the rest fled into the darkness. The next morning Batman's party found two badly wounded men and many blood trails. The wounded men informed them that ten others had been seriously wounded and were dead or dying and that two women had also been severely wounded and had crawled away. The wounded Aboriginal men were subsequently executed by Batman.[68]
                1828–1832. The Black War in Van Diemen's Land refers to a period of intermittent conflict between the British colonists, whalers and sealers (including those of the American sealing fleet) and Aboriginal people in the early years of the 19th century. The conflict has been described as a genocide resulting in the elimination of the full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal population which had numbered somewhere between 1,500 and 22,000 prior to colonisation.[77][78] On New Year's Eve 1831 the last of the eastern tribes surrendered. Settlers, who had imagined they were fighting an implacable foe numbering in the hundreds or thousands were shocked to discover that all that remained of the eastern tribes was 16 men, nine women and one child.[79] They were removed to Flinders Island never to see their home again. Most died of disease. By 1830 the number of Tasmanians in the north-east was 74, with a further 70 or so women who had been taken as slaves by sealers.[68] While greater north-western Tasmania had been home to more than a dozen tribes, by1834 when Robinson contacted the final known remnants, these dozen tribes had been virtually exterminated.[68] There are currently some 20,000 individuals who are of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent.
                Victoria
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                Records in the early days in Port Phillip were sparse and unclear, and the level of resistance to the European settlers and other aspects of Aboriginal culture before this is a source of continuing investigation.[80] It is estimated that massacres by white settlers resulted in the death of approximately 11% of the Aboriginal population between 1836 and 1851.[81]

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                1833–1834. Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara: On the shore near Portland, Victoria was one of the largest recorded massacres in Victoria. Whalers and the local Kilcarer clan of the Gunditjmara people disputed rights to a beached whale carcass.[82] Reports vary with from 60 to 200 Aboriginal Australians killed, including women and children.[83] An 1842 report on the incident notes that the Gunditjmara people believed that only two members of the Kilcarer clan survived.[84]
                1838. Up to 100 Aboriginal people were killed in reprisals carried out in response to the Faithfull Massacre,[85][86][87] also known as the Battle of Broken River and according to historian Chris Clark "a battle which the Aborigines won".[88] On 11 April, by the Broken River at Benalla, a party of some 18 men, employees of George and William Faithfull, were searching out new land to the south of Wangaratta for their livestock, when they were attacked by about 20 Indigenous Australians[89] (possibly as a reprisal for the killing of several Aboriginal people at Ovens earlier by the same stockmen). At least one Koori and eight Europeans died. There were reports of reprisals at Wangaratta and at Murchison (led by the native police under Henry Dana and in the company of the young Edward Curr, who said that he took issue with the official reports). Other incidents were recorded at Mitchelton and Toolamba.[90]
                1838. The Mount Cottrell massacre of around 10 Wathaurong people was carried out in retaliation for the killing of squatter Charles Franks and his convict shepherd Thomas Flinders.[91]
                1838. The Waterloo Plains massacre of between 8 and 23 Dja Dja Wurrung people was a reprisal raid for the killing of two station hands and the theft of sheep.
                1839. In about May–June of that year the Campaspe Plains massacre, Campaspe Creek, Central Victoria, killing Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung people. In May 1839, Taungurung killed two shepherds in reprisal for the murder of three Taungurung the previous month. An armed party of settlers led by station owner Charles Hutton killed up to 40 Taungurung at a campsite near Campaspe Creek. The following month, Hutton led an armed party of police who killed six Dja Dja Wurrung at another camp. All six had been shot in the back while fleeing. The Assistant Protector of Aborigines for the region, described the massacre as "a deliberately planned illegal reprisal."[92]
                1839. In about the middle of the year, the Murdering Gully massacre near Camperdown, Victoria was carried out by Frederick Taylor and others in retaliation for some sheep being killed on his station by two unidentified Aboriginal Australians. The Tarnbeere Gundidj clan of the Djargurd Wurrung people, around 35–40 people, was wiped out. Public censure led to Taylor's River being renamed Mount Emu Creek and, fearing prosecution for the massacre, in late 1839 or early 1840 Taylor fled to India. Of particular note for this massacre is the extent of oral history, first hand accounts of the incident, the detail in settler diaries, records of Wesleyan missionaries, and Aboriginal Protectorate records.[93]
                1 December 1839. The Blood Hole massacre at Middle Creek, 10–11 kilometres (6–7 mi) from Glengower Station between Clunes and Newstead, Victoria. Up to ten Aboriginal people were killed.[94]
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                Further information: Gippsland massacres
                1840–1850. The Gippsland massacres, many led by the Scots pastoralist Angus McMillan, saw between 300 and 1,000 Gunai (or Kurnai) people murdered.[95][96]
                1840–1860. The Eumeralla Wars between European settlers and Gunditjmara people in south west Victoria included a number of massacres resulting in over 442 Aboriginal deaths.
                1840. On 8 March. Known as the Fighting Hills massacre, the Whyte brothers massacred, according to various estimates, from 20 to 51[97][98] Jardwadjali men, women, and children on the Konongwootong run near Hamilton, Victoria. Aboriginal tradition puts the death toll as high as 80.[99][100]
                1840. The Fighting Waterholes massacre was the second massacre by the Whyte brothers, coming only months after the Fighting Hills Massacre. Over 40 Konongwootong Gunditj Aboriginal people killed near Konongwootong Reservoir (then Denhills Creek).[101][102] From the Gippsland Guardian: "We counted sixty-nine victims, including some half dozen or so that were not quite dead, but these we put out of their misery with the butt-end. The blacks carried off a few wounded ones but as we fired at the body we pretty well spoilt them all as we hit".[103]
                1842. The Lubra Creek massacre of five Dhauwurd wurrung people took place on the Caramut run, leased by Thomas Osbrey and Sidney Smith at the time.[104][105][106][107]
                1843. The Warrigal Creek massacre, which left 100–150 Aboriginal people dead.[108][109]
                1846. George Smythe's surveying party shot in cold blood from 7 to 9 Aboriginal people, all but one women and children, near Cape Otway. Known as the Blanket Bay massacre[110]
                Western Australia
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                1830. Fremantle The first official "punishment raid" on Aboriginal people in Western Australia, led by Captain Irwin, took place in May 1830. A detachment of soldiers led by Irwin attacked an Aboriginal encampment north of Fremantle in the belief that it contained men who had "broken into and plundered the house of a man called Paton" and killed some poultry. Paton had called together a number of settlers who, armed with muskets, set out after the Aboriginal people and came upon them not far from the home. "The tall savage who appeared the chief showed unequivocal gestures of defiance and contempt" and was accordingly shot. Irwin stated, "This daring and hostile conduct of the natives induced me to seize the opportunity to make them sensible to our superiority, by showing how severely we could retaliate their aggression." In actions that followed over the next few days, more Aboriginal people were killed and wounded.[111][112]
                1834. Pinjarra: Conflict with the Murray tribe - official records state that 14 Aboriginal people were killed, but other accounts put the figure much higher, at 25 or more.[113][114][115][116]
                1836. August, Henry William St Pierre Bunbury after killings in the York area, tracked one wounded Aboriginal man into the bush and shot him through the head. Bunbury also recorded the names of another 11 Aboriginal men he killed during this period. Settlers to the district collected ears of Aboriginal men slain.[17][117][118][119]
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                1841. On 27 February an extensive massacre at Lake Minninup in Western Australia, led by Captain John Molloy who "gave special instructions that no woman or child should be killed, but that no mercy should be offered the men. A strong and final lesson must be taught the blacks. … The white men had no mercy. Wardandi men women and children were killed by hundreds , and their corpses lined the route of march of the avengers."[120] Also known as the Wonnerup massacre.
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                5 June 1854. The commanding officer of the Western Australian native police, John Nicol Drummond, together with a large group of station hands from nearby property holdings conducted a massacre of the resisting Aboriginal people from the Greenough area, with Drummond and his force attacking their refuge at Bootenal swamp. Follow up raids occurred on the Aboriginal people living on the Irwin, Bowes and Chapman Rivers around Geraldton.[121]
                1860s
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                1865. The La Grange expedition was a search expedition carried out in the vicinity of La Grange Bay in the Kimberley region of Western Australia led by Maitland Brown that led to the death of up to 20 Aboriginal people.[122] The expedition has been celebrated with the Explorers' Monument in Fremantle, Western Australia.
                1867. The Battle of Minderoo at Minderoo Station, led by Farquhar MacRae and E. T. Hooley.[123]
                1868. Flying Foam Massacre, Dampier Archipelago. Following the killing of two police and two settlers by local Yaburara people, two parties of settlers from the Roebourne area, led by prominent pastoralists Alexander McRae and John Withnell, killed an unknown number of Yaburara. Estimates of the number of dead range from 20 to 150.[124]
                1870s
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                1872. Governor Frederick Weld dismissed Perth Police magistrate E. W. Landor for failing to charge Geraldton drover Mr. Lockier Burges (1841-1929) with murder although he admitted shooting a "wild native"" in cold blood. Mr Burges was convicted of the lesser charge of unlawful harm instead. The dismissal was appealed to the Home Office in London.[125]
                1880s
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                1887. Halls Creek. Mary Durack suggests there was a conspiracy of silence about the massacres of Djara, Konejandi and Walmadjari peoples, and about attacks on Aboriginal people by white gold-miners, Aboriginal reprisals and consequent massacres at this time. John Durack was speared, which led to a local massacre in the Kimberley.
                1888. When a prospector named George Barnett from the Panton River was killed by Aborigines, a punitive party set out to "disperse the blacks". During the three week expedition, the group had "dispersed" over 600 men, women and children, with a newspaper reporting "only six niggers butchered". They also brought back two small Aboriginal boys with them as "trophies".[126] One of the punitive expedition's leaders, Augustus Lucanus, remembers dispersing around 200 Aboriginal people in this incident while Mary Durack wrote that it was one of the most sweeping massacres in the region's history with one participant alone killing 35 Aboriginal people. The Government Resident of Roebourne stated that 70 were killed.[127][128]
                1890s
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                1890–1926. Kimberley region—The Killing Times—East Kimberleys: During what the colonial government called "pacification", recalled as "The Killing Times", a quarter of Western Australia's police force was deployed in the Kimberley where only 1% of the white population dwelt.[129] Violent means were used to drive off the Aboriginal tribes, who were hounded by police and pastoralists alike without judicial protection.[130] The Indigenous peoples reacted with payback killings. Possibly hundreds were killed in the Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Margaret River area, while Jandamarra was being hunted down.[131] Reprisals, and the "villainous effects" of settler policy left the Kimberley Aboriginal people decimated.[132] Massacres in retaliation for attacks on livestock are recorded as late as 1926.[133] The Gija people alone recall 10 ten mass killings for this period.[134]
                1893. Behn River. After an affray in which 23 Aboriginal people were shot and a policeman speared, a punitive expedition was launched in which another 30 Aboriginal people were shot to "teach them a lesson" and instill fear of the white man into the Indigenous population as a whole.[135]: 112 
                11 November 1895. Ivanhoe Station A group of police and trackers followed a group of Aboriginal people to a camp-site after they were alleged to have stolen cattle. About 20 Aboriginal people were shot and killed after they tried to flee. One of the participants in this massacre, Constable Mick Rhatigan, was later implicated in the 1915 Mistake Creek massacre.[136][137]
                South Australia
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                1840s
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                1842. Pillaworta Station, end of Arno Bay, Eyre Peninsula – unknown number of Aboriginal people killed by soldiers in retribution for the killings of colonists in the Port Lincoln district earlier in 1842.[138]
                1848. Avenue Range Station massacre (near Guichen Bay on the state's Limestone Coast) – at least 9 indigenous Buandig Wattatonga clan people allegedly murdered by the station owner James Brown who was subsequently charged with the crime. The case was dropped by the Crown for lack of (European) witnesses.[139] Christina Smith's source from the Wattatonga tribe refers to 11 people killed in this incident by two white men.[140]
                1849. Waterloo Bay massacre (Elliston on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula)[141] – tens of Aboriginal Nauo people were killed in retribution for the killing of 2 settlers and theft of food.[142][143]
                1880s
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                Koonchera Point massacre near Lake Howitt in the far north of the state, just off the Birdsville Track. Hundreds of Aboriginal Ngameni, Yawarrawarrka, Yandruwandha and Bugadji people were meeting for a corroboree when police and their Aboriginal trackers arrived in response to the killing and eating of a bullock by Aboriginal people. No warning was given and the police and trackers opened fire, killing between 200 and 500 people, with only five survivors.[144]
                Queensland
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                1842. 30–60 or more killed in the Kilcoy poisoning. On the outskirts of Kilcoy Station owned by Sir Evan MacKenzie, 30–60 people of the Kabi Kabi died from eating flour laced with strychnine and arsenic.[145] In an 1861 enquiry into Aboriginal people and the Native Police, Captain John Coley referred to this poisoning and claimed that further action against these local Aboriginal people also included shooting which resulted in more deaths. He also confirmed that "strychnine goes by the name of Mackenzie among the blacks". Evan MacKenzie received only a caution from John Plunkett, the Attorney-General of New South Wales, for this well reported massacre.[146] The Battle of One Tree Hill, in which Multuggerah and his band of warriors prevailed, followed the poisoning.[147][148]
                1847. 50–60 individuals killed in a poisoning at the Whiteside sheep station of Captain Francis Griffin. In April 1847 flour laced with arsenic was left in a hut with the expectation that Aboriginal people "would visit the hut and make use of the mixture"; the act was reportedly in revenge for an Aboriginal attack on a hutkeeper, who had been blinded by a blow to the head with a waddy.[149] Some twenty years later a white pioneer "saw scores of bleached bones including a complete skeleton" while riding in the vicinity, and heard that "fifty or sixty" Aboriginal people had lost their lives there by poisoning.[150][151]
                26 November 1848. 3 Aboriginal women and one child were murdered at Canning Creek by a posse of seven white men.[152]
                1849. Perhaps more than 100 killed in the Upper Burnett. The murder of the Pegg brothers, two adolescent employees at Foster and Blaxland Gin Gin station in June, was avenged in a large-scale punitive expedition with 'over 50 station-hands and squatters' catching up with 'more than a 100 myals' camped at the mouth of Burnett River allegedly on the ground of the later 'Cedar' sugar plantation or Gibson's Cedars Estate. No numbers were made but the 'affray' was later described as 'one of the bloodiest in Queensland frontier history'.[153]
                1849. Unknown numbers killed on the Balonne and Condamine. By 1849 clashes between Aboriginal people and settlers occurred on the Balonne and Condamine Rivers of Queensland.[62]
                1850s
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                1850s. Several reprisal killings and at least one massacre (on the Nerang River in 1857) of the Yugambeh people.
                1850. Hundreds allegedly killed near Paddy Island in the Burnett River. A large-scale punitive expedition was formed following the alleged murder of Gregory Blaxland junior at Gin Gin station in August of that year – by settlers from Walla, Tenningering, Yenda, Wetheron, Monduran, Kolonne, Eureka, Ideraway, Baramba, Boonara and Boubyjan stations. Both William Henry Walsh and Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell is known to have participated in this expedition and Walsh later revealed some details during a parliamentary debate in Queensland some two decades later. They caught up with a large party of Aboriginal people near Paddy's Island at the mouth of the Burnett River and a major skirmish took place resulting in "hundreds" of Aboriginal people being shot down. The number 200 has been mentioned.[154]
                January 1856. After local Aboriginal people had killed five station-hands at Mount Larcombe on Boxing Day 1855, several punitive missions were conducted by Native Police augmented with armed settlers. Lieutenant John Murray of the Native Police 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 Raglan. At dawn, just as the group of men, women and children were awakening, they were ambushed and many shot dead. Hourigan's Creek at Raglan is named after the trooper who fired the first shots. Those who survived were again hunted down to the coast at Keppel Bay and either shot or driven into the sea.[155] A third group of Aboriginal people crossed the Fitzroy river with Murray in pursuit. To cross the river, the troopers borrowed a boat belonging to Charles Archer of Gracemere. A group of Aboriginal people encamped near Gracemere provided Murray with information about the fugitives, and from this group a number of men (described as "fighting men") then accompanied him, and assisted in tracking the fugitives and participated in the ensuing attack, during which a further fourteen Aboriginal people were indiscriminately killed.[156] A former resident of Raglan remembered how the garden edging at the Raglan pastoral property was decorated with the skulls of shot Aboriginal people.[157]
                1857–1858. Hundreds killed (including Juandah (Wandoan) massacre) in retaliation for the Hornet Bank massacre. Massacre of the Yeeman tribe and numerous attacks on many others following the attack on the Fraser family and their employees at Hornet Bank station. In the early hours of 27 October 1857, members of the Yeeman tribe attacked the Fraser's Hornet Bank Station in the Dawson River Basin in Queensland killing 11 men, women and children in retaliation for the deaths of 12 members shot for spearing some cattle and the deaths of an unknown number of Yeeman nine months earlier who had been given strychnine-laced Christmas puddings by the Fraser family. Following the deaths of his parents and siblings, William Fraser, who had been away on business, began a campaign of extermination that eventually saw the extinction of the Yeeman tribe and language group. Fraser is credited with killing more than 100 members of the tribe with many more killed by sympathetic squatters and policemen. By March 1858 up to 300 Yeeman had been killed. Public and police sympathy for Fraser was high, and he gained a reputation as a folk hero throughout Queensland.[44][158]
                1860s
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                Early 1860s. "Water view", North Bundaberg, at least 15 to 20 Aboriginal Australians killed in a dispersal by Native Police. The co-founder and proprietor of Colanne Station (Kolan) Nicholas Edward Nelson Tooth (1843–1913) in 1895 wrote about finding of numerous remains from Native Police dispersal: "Two or three of us were one day looking for ebony wood (for stockwhip handles) when we suddenly came on a heap of human bones, among which were 15 or 20 skulls … At first we thought it was an old burying place of the blacks, but I afterwards learnt from a black that it was the spot where the native police had come upon a large camp of blacks and dispersed them."[159]
                7 March 1860. Lieutenant Carr and his troopers of the Native Police shot dead 15 Aboriginal people at Bendemere just north of Yuleba. Carr had tracked down and surrounded their camp containing around 100 people because the local squatter, William Sim, complained that they were "annoying the shepherds and demanding rations." Upon seeing the troopers they threw their nulla-nullas at them, to which Carr responded with sustained gunfire for over an hour.[160]
                January 1861. In response to a letter from settler John Hardie, a native police detachment led by Lieutenant Frederick Wheeler was dispatched to Dugandan to "disperse" the local Aboriginal people. The native police ambushed their camp during the night, killing at least two men,[161] possibly as many as 40.[162]
                10 February 1861. Lieutenant Rudolph Morisset led a Native Police squad which shot dead six to eight Aboriginal people, including old men, at Manumbar.[163]
                October–November 1861. Central Highlands. Between October and November 1861, police and settlers killed an estimated 170 Aboriginal people in what was then known as the Medway Ranges following the killing of the Wills family.[50] Native Police shooting into an Aboriginal camp at the Nogoa River on 26 October 1861, estimated they shot from 60 to 70 dead before running out of ammunition.
                January 1863. Fifteen members of an Aboriginal group resident to the area around Mount Elliot shot dead.[164]
                16 December 1864. Nassau River Massacre. A party of four armed Europeans and four Aboriginal employees, led by Frank and Alexander Jardine, massacred 8 or 9 members of the Kokoberrin people.[165] The Jardine Brothers claimed to have been attacked by the Kokoberrin while droving approximately 250 cattle on the first attempt by British colonisers to take cattle up the west coast of Cape York Peninsula[166] A first hand account from Frederick Byerley records that "…seeing eight or nine of their companions drop, made them think better of it, and they were finally hunted back across the river, leaving their friends behind them. The question here is, who was trespassing on whose land? Surely the Kokoberrin warriors were merely protecting their families and their traditional lands".[167]
                July 1865. Native troopers ambushed a Darumbal ceremonial gathering outside Rockhampton and shot dead 18 Aboriginal Australians, and then set fire to their corpses.[168]
                1867. Goulbolba Hill Massacre, on John Arthur Macartney's St Helens Station Central Queensland: large massacre in 1866 or early 1867 involving men, women and children. This was claimed to be the result of settlers pushing Aboriginal people out of their hunting grounds and the Aboriginal people being forced to hunt livestock for food.[169] A party of Native Police, allegedly under Frederick Wheeler, who had a reputation for violent repressions, was sent to "disperse" this group of Aboriginal people, who were "resisting the invasion". He is supposed to have also mustered up a force of 100 local whites. Alerted to Wheeler's presence by a native stockman, the district's Aboriginal people hid in caves on Goulbolba Hill. According to eyewitness testimony taken down from one local white in 1899 (thirty years after the event), that day some 300 Aboriginal people, including all the women and children, were shot dead or killed by being herded into the nearby lake for drowning.[170][171] Goulbolba Hill is now known as Mount Gobulba on the north side of Lake Maraboon near the town of Emerald; however the present Lake Maraboon was created in 1968 by the construction of the Fairbairn Dam.[172][173]
                April 1867. The Leap Massacre at Mt Mandarana, near Mackay. The massacre of large group of 200 Aboriginal men, women and children from the north side of the Pioneer River, took place after being pursued by a Queensland Native Police Force, led by Sub-Inspector Johnstone, in April 1867. The group was camping on Balnagowan pastoral lease (just to the south of The Leap), where cattle had been speared in February 1867 and had sought refuge in caves at the top of the mountain. They were forced to jump off a cliff on Mount Mandarana of several hundred feet, rather than be face the carbines of the Native Police Force.[174]
                12 July 1867. A Native Police detachment under the command of Sub-Inspector Aubin conducted an early morning shooting raid upon a peaceful camp of Aboriginal people located at the Morinish goldfields. Seven people were killed, including children and an old man, with others severely wounded.[175] Although Sub-Inspector Aubin was forced to resign, he faced no public inquiry or any further legal action.[176]
                1869. Kaurareg killings on Torres Strait Islands. District police magistrate in Somerset, Far North Queensland, Henry Chester, and his successor, Frank Jardine, send native police out to punish Kaurareg people on Muralag (Prince of Wales Island), who were wrongly thought to have killed the crew of a schooner called Sperwer. A massacre is reported to have taken place, and reprisals against the Kaurareg continued.[177][178][179]
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                c. 1872. Bladensburg massacre. Over 200 killed by Native Police at Skull Hole on the head of Mistake Creek,[a] Bladensburg Station (near Winton) Central Queensland. In 1888, the visiting Norwegian scientist Carl Lumholtz recalled how he in about 1882–84 "was shown" at Bladensburg "a large number of skulls of natives who had been shot by the black police" some years earlier. In 1901 P. H. F Mackay wrote an article to The Queenslander citing one witness and participant in this dispersal—the later property manager Hazelton Brock—who classified the incident as "the Massacre of the Blacks" and stated that it took place at the Skull Hole on Mistake Creek. Thus two unrelated sources give evidence and details (notably with reports of forensic evidence in both cases) of at least one large-scale dispersal at Bladensburg some time about 1877–1879. It was "one of the most blood curdling sights I ever saw", Hazelton Brock is supposed to have stated. Both sources describe it as connected to an Aboriginal attack on a bullock wagon during which one man was "murdered". The dispersal was headed by Acting Sub-inspector Robert Wilfred Moran (1846–1911) and his troopers and a group of settlers headed by George Fraser—14 men in all—and the target was a large camp with hundreds of blacks in the "Skull Hole" in "the Forsyth Ranges on the head of Mistake Creek". Hazelton Brock is cited for the statement that over 200 blacks were killed.[180]
                1872. Mogool, Mount Coliseum, Miriam Vale station, the Goreng Goreng tribe had killed a bullock and were feasting on it at base of Moogool, and the native troopers under Acting Sub-inspector Douglas were called in. The troopers rounded the tribe into a circle and massacred almost all of them; only Gimmie escaped with his young nephew Nyralung on his shoulders and ran to the mountain.
                1873. The Battle Camp collision, Far North Queensland in about December 1873, supposedly took the life of a number of Aboriginal Australians. The event took place during the first rush of miners travelling from the Endeavour River to the Palmer river in about November or December 1873. In an article in the Queenslander's Sketcher in December 1875, one digger recalled the Palmer rush two years earlier. One morning he and his party had, he told: …passed 'Battle camp' … It was here the blacks of the interior first re-ceived their 'baptism of fire;' where they first became acquainted with the death-dealing properties of the mysterious weapon of the white man;…Here and there a skull, bleached to the whiteness of snow, with a round bullet-hole to show the cause of its present location…[181]
                1874–1875. Blackfellow's Creek, Far North Queensland. A letter from a miner dated "Upper Palmer River April 16, 1876" describes his camp at a place known locally as "Blackfellows creek". He explained, leaving very little doubt as to its appearance, that: "…To my enquiry as to why it was so named, the answer is that not long since 'the niggers got a dressing there'—whatever that may mean; possibly a bright coloured shirt apiece, for decency's sake. There have been, certainly, 'dressings' of another sort dealt out in this part of the country to the blacks,…. Be that as it may, however, the Golgotha[b] on which we are at present camped would well repay a visit from any number of phrenological students in search of a skull, or of anatomical professors in want of a 'subject.'"[182]
                1878. "Dispersing the mob". A total of 75 dead or dying was counted after just one Native Police "dispersal", most likely somewhere in the Cook district in Far North Queensland. In the January 1879 issue of Brisbane Daily News, the highly acclaimed editor Carl Feilberg recorded the numbers of killed during a dispersal in the far north (most likely Cook district), saying "A gentleman, on whose words reliance can be placed, has stated that after one of these raids he has counted as many as seventy-five natives dead or dying upon the ground. Of course the official returns will report the aboriginal race to be fast dying out."[183]
                1879. Selwyn Range, North-West Queensland. It has been alleged that an estimated total of 300 Aboriginal Australians (supposedly of the Kalkadoon tribe) were shot in a series of Native Police and settler "dispersals" ending in the Selwyn Ranges. It has been described as alleged retaliation—supposedly on the Kalkadoon tribe, following the alleged "murder" of the squatter Bernard Molvo and his men James Kelly, "Harry" or Henry Butler and "Tommy" or Thomas Holmes—who were killed at Suleiman Creek (this event was called the 'Woonamo massacre' as the bodies of the victims were found in the 'Wonomo billabong' at Sulieman Creek). Luke Russell, the manager of Stanbook station, Alexander Kennedy and later Sub-inspector Ernest Eglinton and his troopers were allegedly involved in a series of retaliations culminating in the Selwyn Range. Robert Clarke, 22 years after the alleged events, estimated (in 1901) that a total of 300 were shot.[184]
                1879. 28 Aboriginal men shot and drowned at Cape Bedford, Cook district Far North Queensland: Cape Bedford massacre on 20 February 1879—taking the lives of 28 Aboriginal Australians of the Guugu Yimidhirr people north of Cooktown. Cooktown-based Native Police Sub-inspector Stanhope O'Connor with his troopers Barney, Jack, Corporal Hero, Johnny and Jimmy hunted down and subsequently "hemmed in" a group of Guugu-Yimidhirr Aboriginal Australians in "a narrow gorge", north of Cooktown, "of which both outlets were secured by the troopers. There were twenty-eight men and thirteen gins thus enclosed, of whom none of the former escaped. Twenty-four were shot down on the beach, and four swam out to the sea" never to be seen again.[185]
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                1884. 21st century allegations regarding Battle Mountain: That more than 200 Kalkadoon people were killed near Kajabbi, near Cloncurry Queensland after a Chinese shepherd had been "murdered."[186]: 71–72 [failed verification] Over 9 weeks, settlers and Urquhart's Native Mounted Police tracked the Kalkadoons. At Battle Mountain an estimated 600 Kalkatungu warriors gathered on a rocky outlook. Note this allegation has been made without any newspaper reports of the time confirming this.
                1884. Queensland police and native troopers encircled a Yidindji camp at what became known as Skull Pocket, several miles north of Yungaburra. At dawn, a shot was fired from one side into the camp to make the Yidindji scatter, and then as they rushed into the ambushing forces elsewhere, they were shot down.[187]
                September 1884. Following the fatal spearing of Sub-inspector Henry Pollock Kaye of the Native Mounted Police on the Woolgar gold fields when driving out some 40 indigenous persons from the town,[188] it is indicated a retaliatory massacre occurred.[189]
                1884–1885. The Coppermine massacres in the hinterland of Darwin, around the Daly River.[190]
                1888. Diamantina River district in south west Queensland. A killing of a station cook near Durrie on the Diamantina in 1888 led to a reported attack by a party of the Queensland Native Police led by sub-inspector Robert Little. The attack was timed to coincide with an assembly of young Aboriginal Australians around the permanent waters of Kaliduwarry. Great gatherings of Aboriginal youth were held at Kaliduwarry on the Eyre Creek on a regular basis and attracted youths from as far away as the Gulf of Carpentaria to below the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Perhaps as many as two hundred Aboriginal Australians might have been killed on this occasion.[191]
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                1820s
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                (then part of New South Wales)

                29 December 1827. Captain Henry Smyth of the 39th Regiment of the British Army, Commandant of the British military outpost at Fort Wellington on the Cobourg Peninsula ordered a punitive mission against the local Iwaidja. A party of three armed convicts and three soldiers conducted an early morning raid on the native camp near to a beach on the Bowen's Straits. Many were wounded and at least five Aboriginal people were killed, including a child and her mother, who was bayoneted as she was fleeing to the beach.[192] Smyth had previously utilised one of the three 18-pound carronades mounted at Fort Wellington against the Iwaidja on 30 July. The reports of casualties from this cannon attack range from zero[193] to thirty[194] dead. The use of cannon against Aboriginal people by the British in this area was not new as Phillip Parker King had fired a 6-pound carronade mounted to his survey ship, the Mermaid, against the local people of the nearby Goulburn Islands on 30 March 1819.[195]
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                (then part of South Australia)

                1. Barrow Creek. In February Mounted Constable Samuel Gason arrived at Barrow Creek and a telegraph station was established. Eight days later a group of Kaytetye men attacked the station, killing two whites, Stapleton and Franks, while some others were injured. The motivation for the assault is unclear, various reasons suggest either failure to provide sufficient goods in exchange for the occupation of territory, retaliation for treatment of Kaytetye women, the closing off of their only water source, or, according to a later memory, revenge for setting up the station on one of the most sacred Kaytetye sites. According to T. G. H. Strehlow's information, obtained from elders, the tribe couldn't take out revenge on white criminals who had abducted and raped their women, and so decided to punish the only whites in their vicinity.[196]
                  Samuel Gason mounted a large police hunt against the Kaytetye, with patrols out scouring the land for 6 weeks. 'Skipper' Partridge recalled in 1918 that the patrols shot every black they laid eyes on. The official report stated 10 Kaytetye had been killed by the punitive expedition. Other estimates go up to 40 or more.[197] Skull Creek, where the massacre took place, 50 miles south of Barrow Creek, takes its name from the bleached bones found there long after, the remains of a camp of Aboriginal Australians shot by one of the patrols, though, according to an old settler, Alex Ross, "They were just blacks sitting in their camp, and the party was looking around for blacks to shoot."[198]
                2. Corporal George Montagu led a punitive expedition resulting in up to 150 Aboriginal people being shot dead around the Roper River.[199]
                3. Constable William George Stretton led a punitive expedition resulting in at least 17 Aboriginal people being shot dead near the Daly River.[199]

                Constable William Willshire (standing) and Constable Erwein Wurmbrand (resting) with their Native Police troopers
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                1882. Constable Augustus Lucanus and Corporal George Montagu led a punitive expedition where a number of Aboriginal people were shot dead.[200][199]
                1884. In August Constable William Willshire led a punitive expedition resulting in around 50 Aboriginal people being shot dead.[201]
                In September, Constable William Willshire shot dead at least 3 Aboriginal people,[201] and ex-Constable Augustus Lucanus led a punitive expedition which "dispersed" two large "mobs" of Aboriginal people.[202]
                In October, Corporal George Montagu led a punitive expedition resulting in around 150 Aboriginal people being shot dead,[199] and Constable Allan MacDonald shot dead 14 Aboriginal people.[199]
                In November, Constable Erwein Wurmbrand shot dead 7 Aboriginal people.[201]
                1885. In June, Constable Erwein Wurmbrand led a punitive expedition which resulted in at least 17 Aboriginal people being shot dead and in October, Constable Cornelius Power shot dead at least four Aboriginal people.[201]
                1886. Constable William Curtis led a punitive expedition which resulted in 52 Aboriginal people being shot dead and another 12 falling to their deaths.[199][203]
                1880s–1890s. Arnhem Land. Series of skirmishes and "wars" between Yolngu and whites. Several massacres at Florida Station. Richard Trudgen[204] also writes of several massacres in this area, including an incident where Yolngu were fed poisoned horse meat after they killed and ate some cattle (under their law, it was their land and they had an inalienable right to eat animals on their land). Many people died as a result of that incident. Trudgen also talks of a massacre ten years later after some Yolngu took a small amount of barbed wire from a huge roll to build fishing spears. Men, women and children were chased by mounted police and men from the Eastern and African Cold Storage Supply Company and shot.[205]
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                1890. Mistake Creek massacre:[c] Sixty Aboriginal men were being taken to Wyndham jail under police guard, on suspicion of cattle theft. A message was received stating that the actual perpetrator had been found, and the police were ordered to release the detainees. However, instead they shot and killed all 60 of them and then burned their bodies.[206][207]

                • cookie2 on 23/01/2023 - 21:31
                  +2

                  @NobalaKoba: Your spamming is on point. Nobody reads spam tho.

    • HungryRussian on 18/01/2023 - 15:02
      +6

      What an idiot

      • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 15:03
        -2

        Username checks out.

  • twocsies on 18/01/2023 - 14:33
    +1

    Note that if extreme heat is forecast in an area, many of the events will be cancelled.

  • HungryRussian on 18/01/2023 - 15:03
    +2

    Thx op,hope ya peeps will have an awesome holiday, yeeew

  • dust on 18/01/2023 - 16:53

    Good effort Pennies!

  • Thor Bargain God on 18/01/2023 - 17:03
    +7

    I struggle to understand all the white folk protesting this day. It is like they are protesting their own existence. As far as I know, the day went quite well back in 1788 and interactions between aborigines and settlers were very peaceful. If they really want to protest or mark a specific day, why not choose something like the Battle of Pinjarra or the day they resolved to wipe out all the indigenous people in Tasmania. Honestly, history is history just about everywhere else, except here. People just need to learn to move on and get along with each other. No-one has been around long enough to remember any of this stuff and for it to profoundly affect them.

    • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 18:06
      -1

      Ah, yes. The public holiday for the Battle of Pinjarra.

      And I love how you're gatekeeping protesting for minorities. How do you know who's Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander on OzBargain anyway?

      I have to ask, what other countries have a public holiday for the country being invaded that is met without controversy?

      • Thor Bargain God on 18/01/2023 - 19:25
        +7

        England has been invaded and conquered by several different groups of people that displaced the people before and enslaved, tortured, murdered, dispossessed and did all sorts of unspeakable things to the pre-existing population. This is just one example of far worse things that have happened to peoples all over the world and shows that borders and ownership of land have changed constantly. This has happened all throughout history and virtually no-one protests this. Am I protesting in the street and requesting reparations from the Celts, Beaker People, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Franks, Picts, Scots and any other tribe that has done wrong my ancestors - hell no. Do I hold a grudge against German and Japanese people around today and hold them accountable for the violent acts against my forefathers? All sorts of people try to make it as though this scenario is the only one in history where stuff went down and a group of people briefly suffered and lost out to some extent. We've got one unfolding right now in Ukraine. Why not concentrate on protesting that instead to show solidarity with displaced peoples? At least it has a chance of achieving something. If we all bore grudges for stuff that happened hundreds of years ago and sought apologies, recognition or compensation from people who weren't around at the time and had nothing to do with it, it would never end. All this stuff just divides Australian people. I would have thought it was time to move on by now. See I am not "gatekeeping" protesting for minorities - I'm just exposing the fact that there are 8 billion other people on this planet who have learned to live with the past and are getting on with things, and then there are a few residual people who are probably going to keep going on about historical wrongs for the next few hundred years because their situation is somehow unique, and to what end?

        • NobalaKoba on 18/01/2023 - 21:58
          -7

          Nice 'whataboutism', and assumptions that anyone against the current date for Australia Day doesn't object to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

          Does England have public holidays for their invasions, and if so are they met without controversy?

          You didn't address either of my questions in the previous comment.

        • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 12:04
          +1

          a lot of words just to say nothing at all. let's just excuse absolute human brutality and violence just because it happened many years ago. why would you protest about those people when they have nothing to do with Australia? the land that we are on? great job moving the goalposts. how can you assume 100% of the population "learned to live with the past"? i can argue only those that benefitted from the atrocities that happened years ago "learned" to live with it. black people in America are still fighting for their heritage, the Indians in America are still seeking reparations for their land being stolen as well. it's not only happening here and you should get your head out of the sand

    • acersaurus on 18/01/2023 - 22:02

      Protesting the day is not protesting our existence. Modern Australia is a great country and will remain that way, regardless of whether the date is changed. From my view it is simply showing solidarity with my fellow humans, whose ancestors went through events that were really significant and awful.

      For the specific new date I think they should choose John Howard's birthday (July 26). He was a well regarded and very long term prime minister, wasn't bitterly hated by the opposing side of politics, and choosing him would be more likely to get conservatives on side. He was also a man able to rise above ideology to just do what's practical sometimes, like banning guns after the Port Arthur Massacre.

      • hamwhisperer on 20/01/2023 - 06:59

        Can't tell if this one is a joke or not

        • acersaurus on 20/01/2023 - 08:38

          Not a joke, believe it could work for reasons stated and there are no public holidays around that time.

          • hamwhisperer on 23/01/2023 - 10:19
            -2

            @acersaurus: John Howard is such a piece of garbage he should be tried and improsoned.

            The wealth inequality he's created for the average person is astounding. The country will never be the same.

            He's vile.

            • acersaurus on 26/01/2023 - 09:14

              @hamwhisperer: Wealth inequality is a major issue, it has mainly been caused by state governments failing to address the housing crisis.

              If federal government is to be blamed, then most of the property growth occurred since 2007 and under governments from both major political parties.

    • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 11:57

      good idea, we should just protest whatever our race is struggling with and abandon all human decency, empathy and camaraderie, what a wonderful thought that surely doesn't promote racial divide and superiority.

  • S7iCkSt3R on 18/01/2023 - 18:08
    +2

    SA
    City of Onkaparinga
    3 free breakfast locations

    Noarlunga Centre – Ramsay Place
    Willunga – The Old Court House
    Happy Valley – Happy Valley Sports Park

    https://www.onkaparingacity.com/Arts-events-tourism/Events-d…

  • CoreJava on 18/01/2023 - 18:47
    -3

    Totally support the invasion of australia. Take over land from the aboriginal is the best day ever.

    • belongsinforums on 26/01/2023 - 10:16
      -1

      sadly people on ozbargain don't understand obvious sarcasm

      • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 11:54
        +1

        it's not that they don't understand sarcasm, it's the fact that they actually believe what the comment is saying and they're upset that someone put it in plain terms for them

  • noodlefan on 18/01/2023 - 22:29

    Legend, thanks.

  • Shane034 on 19/01/2023 - 00:04

    Enjoy Australia Day (and vote no to the voice to Parliament).

    • NobalaKoba on 19/01/2023 - 10:41
      +1

      You should try doing what you tell others to do, and "go back to where you came from".

      • Shane034 on 19/01/2023 - 11:49
        +2

        Not a term I use. I have no problem with migrants. Just people blaming captain cook for things that they need to take more personal accountability for.

        • NobalaKoba on 19/01/2023 - 12:47

          'Personal accountability'?

          I want some of what you're smoking.

  • dclee12 on 19/01/2023 - 00:56
    +1

    Thanks OP for the detailed post. Love Australia Day, great thing for recent migrants to get into as well.

    Got no issues with changing the date, its just a day.
    My concern is that no one seems to be putting forward an alternative day. When pushed, many “change the date” campaigners will start to mention something about not celebrating until all Australians are equal, or when all wrongs are corrected etc.
    No one benefits if we cancel the day completely.

    • NobalaKoba on 19/01/2023 - 09:52
      -2

      Most of us don't mind what date it's changed to, or don't want to derail the argument into whether a specific date is 'good enough'.

      While I don't doubt that some people want it cancelled, those people aren't "change the date" campaigners, they're wanting the date cancelled. Those two things are mutually exclusive, and the vast majority want the date changed not cancelled.

      • dclee12 on 20/01/2023 - 16:44

        Just want to mention , by “campaigners”, i don’t mean your average person who supports it. I mean the spokespeople etc from various groups pushing this idea of change.

        If people are serious about changing the date only , then they should put forward an alternative day.
        oh and the neg wasnt from me.

      • cookie2 on 23/01/2023 - 21:34

        So you don't want others to speak for the collective but now you're the voice of a collective yourself. Pot kettle.

        • NobalaKoba on 23/01/2023 - 21:59

          Uhhhh, okay bud.

          Didn't realise pointing out mutual exclusivity was speaking for a collective, but maybe I'll understand your perspective after I bash my head with a hammer a few times.

  • JelIyfish on 19/01/2023 - 08:24
    -3

    What a strange thing to spend countless hours putting together. Most people interested in attending would already have the info via their local community pages.

    • xoom on 19/01/2023 - 10:07
      +6

      Im interested in attending. Wouldnt know where local community pages are. But hey. Theres i smell pennies posting about it with details.

      How one spends their time is not for you to decide unless you are paying them for a task or job.

      Whatever i smell pennies gets out of posting this. I say more power and keep it up.

    • cookie2 on 23/01/2023 - 21:36
      +1

      Why would you bag someone's genuine efforts to help others? What local community pages you speak of, I'm not sure as I've seen none.

      • I Smell Pennies on 23/01/2023 - 21:49

        Thanks 🙏🏽

      • JelIyfish on 24/01/2023 - 06:32

        OP said it took ages and then asked for thanks in return. It didn’t sound like a labour of love. I don’t care what they spend their time doing, I was just pointing out that they don’t need to do it.
        I meant local council advertising & Facebook community pages, they have been posting this stuff leading up to the day.

        • xoom on 24/01/2023 - 08:20
          +3

          Theres a lot of things that we don't need to do. Like posting deals here. We do it not for any return or financial gain. A simple thanks was more than plenty.

  • aliocroc on 19/01/2023 - 10:09

    8.30am – 11.30am, Wyndham Park, Werribee City Centre () <a href="https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/events-experiences/wyndham-citys-major-events/australia-day-wyndham">Free Breakfast Event</a>

    • xoom on 19/01/2023 - 10:10

      You break it. You bought it.

      🙃

      • aliocroc on 19/01/2023 - 10:14

        Yep, Obv, I dont know how to do links, sorry. Interesting that Wyndham are one of the few councils in Melbs West doing anything, most others have abstained.

        • xoom on 19/01/2023 - 10:16

          Relax. Im just yanking your chain.

          May be jv's mate Dan is cutting back.

  • ditacarlita on 19/01/2023 - 12:01
    +1

    Thanks OP! Didn't know about these, will be attending.

  • MaMan on 22/01/2023 - 23:16
    +1

    Great day for a trip to the country to celebrate with my countrymen and women and invest some hard earned in to the local economy. I will leave the numpties that will be protesting in the city to enjoy their outrage while I kick back with a Beer and a snag.

  • fozzie on 25/01/2023 - 12:48

    Free dj at Engadine and Sutherland, I think 10-2

  • bettina44 on 25/01/2023 - 23:00
    +2

    a late addition, burwood council has a free bbq: https://www.burwood.nsw.gov.au/For-Residents/Events-and-Acti…

  • Trekky on 26/01/2023 - 08:46

    (NSW) Blacktown Council had a concert with Hayley Teal, Oz Icons, 501 Band, Ross Wilson and Vanessa Amorosi, with Fireworks afterwards

    https://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Events-and-activities/2023-…

    Starts at 4pm

  • joshash on 26/01/2023 - 09:45

    Changing the date?
    What would help Indigenous Aussies :-

    • Better jobs
    • Better healthcare
    • Better living conditions
    • A better future for their kids

    A committee in Canberra and changing the date of a public holiday does zilch for Aboriginal kids.

    The real stuff means we have to put our hands in our pockets as a nation. It means money - not talk.

    I'd wager 99.9% of both sides of this 'change the date' sideshow wouldn't give 5c to make a real difference to Aboriginal kids.

    I'm happy to pay more tax to achieve better outcomes for Indigenous Australians and it's about time we dropped the talk and really made a change we can all be proud of as a nation.

    • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 11:50
      +1

      changing the date is such an easy thing to do and yet the government don't want to do it. so what makes you think that they're going to give Aboriginals all those things when moving a public holiday is such a monumental task for them? changing the date would be the catalyst for change, it's something "small" that would have a great impact and would imply that were ready to change, but I guess based on the people in this thread, it's such a touchy subject to move a public holiday so it doesn't commemorate massacres and invasion.
      i totally agree with you btw, those things you suggested would be amazing but if the government can't even move a day, those things you suggested are very out of reach

    • xoom on 26/01/2023 - 11:51
      -2

      But sometimes you can only lead the horse to water but you can't make it drink.

      You can throw as much help as you like towards an individual or community but if they are not taking advantage of such opportunities. What then?

  • belongsinforums on 26/01/2023 - 10:15
    +1

    apologists rearing their ugly heads here. shame

  • cerealsmok3r on 26/01/2023 - 10:42

    so sad that inner west council doesnt offer anything

    • xoom on 26/01/2023 - 11:49

      You sitting member / councillors hate you.

  • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 11:45
    +2

    i truly applaud the effort that is put into this post but what concerns me is that i share this penny-pinching website with such racist, right-winged libs lmao. that's a massive cognitive dissonance if I've ever seen one. But hey let's just keep celebrating the day the invaders stole Aboriginal land from them, hooray!

    • King Tightarse on 26/01/2023 - 12:11

      The term enshrined in the landmark Mabo ruling is that Australia was settled not invaded. 245 marines who where present to control a group of convict laborers would hardly be a military match for 500, 000 Aborigines if it were an actual invasion.
      They did, however, go right to work creating a settlement and farming and improving it
      Been improving it ever since. It's one of the richest and most successful democracies on the planet now.

      • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 12:18
        -1

        Ah yes you're right, 500,000 Aborigines that congregated in that spot at Port Jackson just like that final fight in the first Avatar. And yes, the convicts and the marines are solely the main reason as to why were in such a lucky position, it's not like the geographical advantage and the natural resources played a huge part in that, no no no, it's all Captain Cook's plan from the start

        • King Tightarse on 26/01/2023 - 12:23

          I am sure that had a state of war exited, the local Aborigines warriors could quickly assemble a force that would overcome 245 Marines with slow single shot muskets in no time
          You seem to have missed the point. The British began the work of farming organizing, cultivating and improving and yes that is the starting point to the wealthy society we enjoy today

          • bakemon0 on 26/01/2023 - 12:27

            @King Tightarse: So your point is it's okay to steal resources that's not yours because you can do better with it? that's like saying it's fine to steal a car because you can drive it faster? that's your point?

            • King Tightarse on 26/01/2023 - 12:39

              @bakemon0: The British set about improving the land with their superior technology and hard work.
              Have been ever since.
              It's part of the wonderful success we celebrate on Australia Day

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