Frederick Hay News Today

An unflinching examination of its own history has revealed shocking stories in the sandstone foundations of a revered institution

The aim of much recent writing on alleged frontier massacres appears to be the conjuring of as many murdered Aborigines as possible. With its errors, omissions and disconcerting semi-novelistic approach to the events and non-events at Forrest River, Professor Kate Auty’s book is another example of that movement. That it has been blessed with the imprimatur of a university press makes this sorry work all the more depressing

“Telling the truth shouldn’t take so long.” – Professor Kate Auty  

This article is an example as why it is not a smart idea to drive through flooded creeks. This story comes from the 11 July 1892 Waverly Watchman.

In the Northern Territory, fatalities by law enforcement is part of an historic cycle of policing in the north which includes police reprisal and then acquittal for murder.

James Noble’s harrowing discovery on the banks of the Forrest River in 1926 helped uncover a trail of slaughter across WA’s east Kimberley and continues to haunt his descendants