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The Myall Creek Massacre was a horrific atrocity, leading to the slaughter of twenty-eight innocent Aboriginal Australians from the Kwiambal tribe, of the Myall Creek district, on the 10th June 1838. (1). The execution of the twenty-eight Aborigines, the group consisting of men, women and children, went completely without reason. During May 1838 stockmen in stations in the lower Gwydir Valley, located at a distance of between forty and eighty miles from Myall Creek began to organize an expedition. The purpose of this expedition was to clear the Gwydir area of Aborigines. (2) On Friday the 8th of June 1838 the expedition departed Bell's station, approximately forty miles west of Myall Creek. It appears that a series of massacres and murders were conducted by the group of white travelers upon Aboriginal people. These murders are thought to have occurred on the eighth, ninth, tenth (Myall Creek massacre), and thirteenth of...

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