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Title: Massacre at Myall Creek: A Horrifying Chapter in Australia’s History
Author: BARBER LAURIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2014
Imprint: SID HARTA PUBLISHERS
Price: $24.95
Publishing status: Active
‘Mr Justice Burton said the present case was different from any that had ever been brought before the court.’
The Massacre at Myall Creek represents a tragic page in Australia’s history. The massacre was described by the Chief Justice, Sir James Dowling, as ‘one of the most important cases which has ever come under our notice since there has been a Supreme Court in New South Wales’.
This is an updated reprint of a limited edition book published in 1993, telling the story of the killing of about 28 people camping peacefully at Myall Creek Station in 1838.
A party of horsemen rode up, tied the victims, took them over the hill and proceeded to kill them.
As a result of investigations under difficult conditions, and two trials, seven men were hanged a week before Christmas Day, 1838.
Their trials and conviction caused an outcry in the colony. Until that time, some people saw the killing of Aborigines as no more an offence than the shooting of kangaroos.
This is their story, largely as it was recorded at the time.
About the Author
Laurie Barber is a retired journalist whose reprint of the 1993 effort Massacre at Myall Creek is as a result of many requests. The book, mentioned in the Oxford Companion to Australian History, tells what happened in the words of the people who were there, leading to the hanging of seven men in 1838.
He gained commendations in the Graham Perkin Award for Australia’s Journalist of the year, as well as NSW Country journalist of the year award, and was listed in the 1980 worldwide “Golden Dozen†for editorial writers as announced by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors.
He has published My Word and Ringo, the result of weekly newspaper columns, as well as Please Print for Country Press Australia.
The author is a director of Australian Rotary Health and a former Rotary district governor. His other community interests include Probus, University of the Third Age and Douglas Vale heritage museum. He is patron of the Hastings Fellowship of Writers and represented NSW as a basketball referee. When he finds time, he tries to play bowls.
A former managing editor of The Inverell Times, where he first became interested in the Myall Creek massacre, he now lives at Port Macquarie with his wife Glenda. They have four children, Tracey, Shane, Gary and Stephanie, and eleven grandchildren.
ISBN: 9781922086242
Dimension: 216mm X 140mm
Pages: 216