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Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.

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Myall Creek massacre

1838 killing of Indigenous people in New South Wales

The Myall Creek massacre was the killing of at least 28 unarmed Aboriginal people in the Colony of New South Wales by eight colonists on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek in the north of the colony. Seven perpetrators were convicted of murder and hanged.
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Aboriginal Australians

One of the two categories of Indigenous Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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