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6. Myall Creek - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
On 10 June 1838, a group of armed men rode onto a station in northern New South Wales and killed at least twenty eight Wirrayaraay people, men, women, and children, then burned the bodies two days later to destroy the evidence. What happened next set this massacre apart from hundreds of others across colonial Australia: a station manager reported it, a Governor ordered an investigation, and seven men were eventually hanged for it, the only time in this country's colonial history that white men were executed for killing Aboriginal people. This episode walks through how the Myall Creek massacre…
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