18. Dandalli, Brisbane's Resistance Leader

Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production · Aug 6, 2026 · 22m

On the 5th of January 1855, a gallows stood built directly onto the Queen Street footpath in front of Brisbane Gaol. As the man climbed the steps to the platform, he called out across the street to the crowd of Aboriginal people gathered on the rise above him. He told them who had betrayed him. He told them to avenge his death. His name was Dundalli. For more than a decade, he had been the single most significant resistance figure the colonial settlement of Brisbane had ever faced. And what happened on that gallows — the last public execution ever carried out in the history of Queensland —…