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Oleary Of The Underworld The Untold Story Of The Forrest River Massacre Kate Auty

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Oleary Of The Underworld The Untold Story Of The Forrest River Massacre Kate Auty
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Publisher: Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 4.1 MB
Pages: 288
Author: Kate Auty
ISBN: 9781760643980, 176064398X
Language: English
Year: 2023

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Oleary Of The Underworld The Untold Story Of The Forrest River Massacre Kate Auty by Kate Auty 9781760643980, 176064398X instant download after payment.

A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s

In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Aboriginal people near the Forrest River Mission in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence descended. Witnesses vanished. Charges against two of the officers were dropped for insufficient evidence.

One of the massacre's perpetrators was Bernard O'Leary, a former soldier whose land holding was known as 'the underworld'. At the 1927 royal commission into the killings, O'Leary was portrayed by his lawyer as a simple honest bushman who had been framed. In this powerful account, Kate Auty argues that O'Leary was in fact 'vicious, brazen and a bullshitter', with 'a propensity for brutality'. Although never charged, he played a leading role in the murders, and his duplicitous testimony thwarted the commission's work.

In electric prose,...

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