16. Cullin a Ringo Massacre

Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production · Jul 30, 2026 · 21m

On the 17th of October 1861, nineteen settlers were killed at a station called Cullin-la-Ringo in central Queensland. It remains the single largest killing of European settlers by Aboriginal people in Australian colonial history. There's a cairn marking their graves. Their names are recorded. Their deaths are documented in careful, specific detail. The Gayiri people killed in the months that followed have no memorial. In most accounts, they don't even have a name. This episode tells both sides of what happened at Cullin-la-Ringo — including the part that almost never gets told. The false…