With a lot of such conflicts with indigenous people, the lower figure is the official one and the higher figure the one from indigenous verbal history. So instead of being a completely unknown number, one can assume them to be lower and upper limits on possibilities.numpty said:
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One needs to be careful about motivations, etc. Indigenous people did not like having their land taken, waterholes poluuted by cattle etc. so were not necessarily passive. However one of the horrible things is that in retaliative punitive raids, often no distinction was made between participants in the actions being retaliated against, or between men, women and children. "The attack at Pinjarra is considered to have been in response to sustained aggression by the Binjarebs, including robberies and murder of settlers and members of other Nyungar tribes".
The past is past and what is acceptable changes - we used to hang our white children in those days....age of criminal responsibility was 7, and we hung kids as young as that (mostly only older than 12 in the 1800s). Slavery was only abolished in Britain in 1833.
Anyone ever found any information on or relics from the 12th or 40th regiment of foot
Who is the earliest member of Prospecting Australia That is still here, Obviously Nugget was first
Good question Trev. Never tried to look it up.
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me august 11/ 2013
I was 27th May 2013 (but left for a short time & re-joined). The original mbasko now shows as "Guest" since the forum changeover.
Close but no cigar
Close but no cigar
I think Silver was here early as well
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Sad to see this fading into oblivion but it had its run
Give it a kickstart duck & see if you get any takers?
What famous event had a huge effect on the coast of Australia approx 5000 years ago
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He doesn't show many wrinkles for his age.
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