Dr William (Bill) Pascoe
The Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930 project is to create a database and map of known massacres of 6 or more people across the whole of Australia from the first, on the Hawkesbury in 1794, to the last at Coniston in 1928. This document is a print version of an oral presentation to the Yoorrook Justice Commission on 27/03/2024 with some additional detail. As work on the Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930 project recently concluded, some of the figures and details have been updated.
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