Myall Creek Massacre involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed Australian Aborigines

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Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...

 by European settlers

Colonialism

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 on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near Bingara

Bingara, New South Wales

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 in northern New South Wales

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. After two trials, seven of the 12 settlers involved in the killings were found guilty of murder and hanged

Hanging

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A group of stockmen, consisting of eleven assigned convicts and former convicts led by a squatter, John Fleming, arrived at Henry Dangar

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's Myall Creek station on 10 June 1838.