MYALL CREEK MASSACRE MEMORIAL
The Myall Creek massacre remains one of the darkest events in Australia's colonial history. The massacre at Myall Creek near the Gwydir River, in the central New South Wales district of Namoi, involved the brutal killing of at least twenty-eight unarmed Indigenous Australians including Aboriginal women, children and elderly men by eleven colonists on 10 June 1838.
Seven stockmen were hanged for the crimes, the first time there had been acknowledgement of frontier atrocities and pursuit through the courts. Now 180 years later, the memories of the massacre are laying the foundation for reconciliation.
Mikayla B in Year 7 represented John Therry at the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial event on the weekend of 9th June where she joined over 500 people including approximately 100 students from schools in Qld, ACT and the local north-west NSW area, in telling the truth about Australia's shared history and making paths to move forward in reconciliation.
