Seven shot near Robinvale

Sunraysia Daily

REPRISALS, fear and seizure of land were all reasons given for massacres of Aboriginal people along the Murray River during Australia’s frontier wars.But the earliest recorded mass­acre in the Sunraysia area has been attributed to a simpler motive – ­opportunity.It was May 27, 1836, when the exploring party of Major Thomas Mitchell killed seven Kureinji […]

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