| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 29 min.) |
| Series |
Australian story |
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Australian story (ABC TV)
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| Summary |
"Reconciliation has become a hot political topic, but this Australian Story is about ordinary people putting the word into meaningful action in exceptional circumstances. On Sunday June 10 1838 at Myall Creek in Northern NSW, 28 Aborigines, men, women and children of the Wirrayaraay people were killed by a mob of white stockmen. What makes the Myall Creek massacre unique is that it subsequently became the first occasion when whites were charged and convicted of murdering blacks. It took two trials and a series of sensational events but eventually seven men hanged for the murder of an Aboriginal boy called Charley. 162 years later, as part of a Uniting Church reconciliation program, a permanent memorial was set up at Myall Creek. Not long before the dedication of the memorial, a retired white woman came forward and asked to see Sue Blacklock, a direct descendant of a boy who escaped the massacre. She was Beulah Adams, the wife of a country schoolteacher, and she revealed to Sue that one of the men hanged for the murders was her great uncle. Beulah had come to say sorry. And she was not the only one ..."--Kanopy website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC television program, Australian Story, broadcast on July 26, 2001 |
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| Credits |
Producer: Ben Cheshire; Researcher: Andrew Dickson |
| Cast |
Presenter: Caroline Jones |
| Event |
Originally produced by ABC in 2001 |
| Notes |
Produced Sydney (N.S.W), ABC, 2001 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Myall Creek -- History -- 19th century
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Myall Creek
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Massacres -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Myall Creek
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Reconciliation
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Massacres.
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Race relations.
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Reconciliation.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Australia.
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New South Wales.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Jones, Caroline, 1938-
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Dickson, Andrew, researcher
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Cheshire, Ben, producer
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