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Australian Story - Bridge Over Myall Creek (Digital)
In June 1838 at Myall Creek, Northern NSW, 28 Aborigines, men, women and children of the Wirrayaraay people were killed by a mob of white stockmen.
What makes the Myall Creek massacre unique is that it subsequently became the first occasion when whites were charged and convicted of murdering blacks. Eventually seven men were hanged for the murder of an Aboriginal boy called Charley.
162 years later, as part of a Uniting Church reconciliation program, a permanent memorial was set up at Myall Creek.
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