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O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre

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A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Aboriginal people near the Forrest River Mission in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence descended. Witnesses vanished. Charges against two of the officers were dropped for insufficient evidence. One of the massacre's perpetrators was Bernard O'Leary, a former soldier whose land holding was known as 'the underworld'. At the 1927 royal commission into the killings, O'Leary was portrayed by his lawyer as a simple honest bushman who had been framed. In this powerful account, Kate Auty argues that O'Leary was in fact 'vicious, brazen and a bullshitter', with 'a propensity for brutality'. Although never charged, he played a leading role in the murders, and his duplicitous testimony thwarted the commission's work. In electric prose,...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17766052
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
176064398X
ISBN 13:
9781760643980
ISBN:
176064398X, 9781760643980

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