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'This is an important, well researched book: challenging, compelling and controversial. It is a must read for anyone interested in Australian history.' - Henry ReynoldsThe Queensland frontier was more violent than any other Australian colony. From the first penal settlement at Moreton Bay in 1824, as white pastoralists moved into new parts of country, violence invariably followed. Many tens of thousands of Aboriginals were killed on the Queensland frontier. Europeans were killed too, but in much smaller numbers.The cover-up began from the start: the authorities in Sydney and Brisbane didn't want to know, the Native Police did their deadly work without hindrance, and the pastoralists had every reason to keep it to themselves. Even today, what we know about the killing times is swept aside again and again in favour of the pioneer myth.Conspiracy of Silence is the first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland. Following in the tracks of the pastoralists as they moved into new lands across the state in the nineteenth century, Timothy Bottoms identifies massacres, poisonings and other incidents, including many that no-one has documented in print before.
He explores the colonial mindset and explains how the brutal dispossession of Aboriginal landowners continued over decades.'. a road-map back into what seems, from a modern perspective, to be a barely conceivable past.' - From the foreword by Raymond Evans
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of MapsMapsForeword - Professor Raymond EvansPrologue - The ReasonIntroduction1. Post-Convict Era and the Future South-East Queensland2. European Invasion of the Future Southern Queensland3. European Invasion of the Future Central Queensland4. South-West Queensland - the Channel Country5. Poisonings and Sexual Exploitation6. Early Gulf and Central Queensland7. The Frontier Moves to Far North Queensland and Cape York Peninsula8. Dark Deeds in the Northern Rainforests - the Tully and Cairns Districts9. The Gulf Country and Western Queensland10. Queensland's Disreputable ReputationConclusionEndnotesIndex
