Hospital Creek Massacre

The Hospital Creek Massacre refers to a retaliatory mass-slaughter of Indigenous Australians in 1859 in rural New South Wales.[1][2] There are differing accounts of this event, but one alleges that, a white stockman at Walcha Hut (now called Brewarrina), abducted an Aboriginal woman. The stockman was warned by the woman's fellow tribe members to release her. When the stockman refused to release the woman, they were both killed. White settlers retaliated by shooting a large number of Aboriginal men, women and children. Another version claims that the Hospital Creek Massacre refers to the death of 300 Aboriginals in retaliation for having "annoyed" white settlers.[3] Yet another version states that when a stockman went missing, it was assumed that Aboriginals were the culprit, and approximately 400 of them were rounded up and massacred in retaliation.[4]

Hospital Creek, New South Wales

References

Office of Environment and Heritage. "Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps / Baiame's Ngunnhu". NSW Government. Retrieved 19 December 2015. In one recorded incident in 1859 a stockman at Walcha Hut on the Lawson run was warned by Aboriginals to release one of their women. He refused, and both he and the woman were killed. In retaliation, the settlers shot a large number of Culgoa Aboriginal men, women and children in what became known as the Hospital Creek Massacre (Rando, 2007, p38).CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
"Pioneers of the West". Sydney Mail. XXXIII (859). New South Wales, Australia. 12 September 1928. p. 53. Retrieved 16 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
"Last of the Culgoa Blacks". The Farmer and Settler. I (50). New South Wales, Australia. 24 October 1911. p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
Another version again is that a white husband and wife disappeared. After finding a white woman’s hand in a dilly bag of an aboriginal woman they assumed the aboriginals had killed them. They got permission to kill 200 in retaliation. They chose 200 mainly woman with babies and young children. They lined them up in Hospital Creek and killed the mothers. They left the babies and children to die. Hospital Creek Massacre, retrieved 3 September 2018

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[OEH-1] Office of Environment and Heritage. "Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps / Baiame's Ngunnhu". NSW Government. Retrieved 19 December 2015. In one recorded incident in 1859 a stockman at Walcha Hut on the Lawson run was warned by Aboriginals to release one of their women. He refused, and both he and the woman were killed. In retaliation, the settlers shot a large number of Culgoa Aboriginal men, women and children in what became known as the Hospital Creek Massacre (Rando, 2007, p38).CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[2] "Pioneers of the West". Sydney Mail. XXXIII (859). New South Wales, Australia. 12 September 1928. p. 53. Retrieved 16 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

[3] "Last of the Culgoa Blacks". The Farmer and Settler. I (50). New South Wales, Australia. 24 October 1911. p. 5. Retrieved 17 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] Another version again is that a white husband and wife disappeared. After finding a white woman’s hand in a dilly bag of an aboriginal woman they assumed the aboriginals had killed them. They got permission to kill 200 in retaliation. They chose 200 mainly woman with babies and young children. They lined them up in Hospital Creek and killed the mothers. They left the babies and children to die. Hospital Creek Massacre, retrieved 3 September 2018