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Race relations -- Violent
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The coming of the white men to Boonjie

  • F3879
  • Item
  • 1940-1949

Personal recount of the first recorded contacts between white European explorers, including Willem Janszoon and Captain James Cook, with Aboriginal Australians in an area referred to as Boonjie, possibly located on the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland. Original typescript.

Meredith, Percival Fortescue

Papers relating to Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie

  • F1621
  • Item
  • 1977

Photocopied papers compiled in support of an amended entry on Sir Evan Mackenzie, in Australian Dictionary of Biography. The papers document a massacre of Aboriginal people on or near Mackenzie's station at Kilcoy. Included : letter from Jim Gibbney , Australian Dictionary of Biography, to Gerry Langevad, 19 Oct 1977; death certificate of Richard James Coley; "Preliminary Suggested Amendment" of Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie; and supporting notes.

Langevad, Gerry