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1840 - North West - view
“William Bird, the Aboriginal “Squatter”, the news feature poses the question: should such a man be refused to purchase land because he is an “Aboriginal native”?
1840 - North West - view
prevent white men taking Aboriginal women from their own people by “force, fraud and bribery”
1840 - North West - view
Threlkeld records the language spoken by the “Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter River, Lake Macquarie etc”. He prints some of them during 1850
1840 - North West - view
He and several other Aborigines were arraigned for burglary
1840 - North West - view
“stand my punishment as a man of honor, though I have done no wrong”
1840 - North West - view
Boney worked and received rations at “Lilburndale” near Sackville Reach during July 1883
1840 - North West - view
He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery
1840 - North West - view
He favoured me several times with his company, and perhaps thought it an honor when he made proposals to me for the matrimonial alliance with one of the members of my family
1841 - North West - view
Aboriginal population of the region never again resisted the white occupiers of their land in force
1841 - North West - view
Eventually members of all four communities intermarried
1841 - North West - view
Threlkeld laments the closure of his mission,`the termination of the mission has arisen solely from the Aborigines becoming extinct in these districts ... The thousands of Aborigines ... decreased to hundreds and have lessened to tens and the tens will dwindle to units before a very few years they will have passed away'
1841 - North West - view
Some “natives enquire most anxiously for their blankets” at Stroud. Dungog Magistrate, Thomas Cook , expresses fear that the large number of Aboriginal people in the district – who are without exception quiet and harmless – will get “discontented”
1841 - North West - view
Members of the Maitland Tribe seek and are given asylum at Singleton from the “Paterson blacks” who are at war with them
1841 - North West - view
Threlkeld later explains that the mission is closed “solely from the sad fact that the aborigines themselves had then become almost extinct…
1842 - North West - view
Some townsfolk were reportedly wounded during the “affray”. One was “transfixed by a spear”. When the police arrived, all Aboriginal men quickly “decamped”
1842 - North Coastal - view
Last
blanket distribution in Brisbane Waters and Gosford, 27 men received blankets.
1843 - North West - view
The Aborigines Evidence Bill fails to receive sufficient support at the second reading in the NSW Legislative Council
1843 - North West - view
The Maitland Mercury is especially outspoken in support of reform to Acts of “rank injustice” that hold “the blacks…liable to all the pains and penalties of British law, while the protection they derive from it is extremely partial and uncertain”
1843 - North Coastal - view
Charlotte is incarcerated in a
psychiatric institution. The family recall that once the police found out they
were Aboriginal, they moved them on, saying “She’s only a blackfella anyway”.
1845 - North West - view
Like the Brisbane Water report, it observes that the local Aboriginal population is diminishing. This effects young and old, with many children seldom living through their first winter and elderly people dying during the last winter of cold and hunger