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By Craig Stockings
In this attention-grabbing account, prime Australian army historians take on 10 of the main enduring ancient zombies, or nationwide myths, that experience staggered their manner throughout the halls of army historical past for greater than two hundred years. From Aboriginal resistance and invasion to Australia’s fresh involvement in East Timor, this list disproves the incorrectly memorialized and so-called gallant deeds of earlier Australian servicemen. Provocative and opinionated, this list makes an attempt to right the historic list.
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In northern Australia, the determined hostility of the Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands and the Iwaidja of eastern Arnhem Land forced the British to abandon the military outposts of Fort Dundas (1824–1829) on Melville Island and Fort Wellington (1827– 1829) on the Coburg Peninsula. 40 This was only the second time that the British had used artillery on the Australian frontier. 44 The Macassans did visit Fort Wellington during the 1828 and 1829 trepanging seasons,45 but Sir George Murray, the British Colonial Secretary, wrote ‘I do not think there is any prospect of advantage sufficiently strong to warrant a continuance of the Expense and risk of life’ at either fort.
81 Back east, in 1838 various Aboriginal groups attacked British settlers and their stock animals in several parts of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (now Victoria). 84 The settlers petitioned Governor Sir George Gipps in Sydney to ‘levy war against the blacks or sanction the enrolment of a militia for that purpose’. This was refused. 87 In the 1840s, frontier warfare also raged across the northern districts of New South Wales (now Queensland). In the Darling Downs, soldiers of the 99th Regiment were stationed at Hodgson’s Gap from 1843 to 1846 to protect carts and drays from Aboriginal attack.
When the British opened fire, the Pinjarup jumped into the river and hid among the tree roots and branches, looking for opportunities to hurl spears at their enemy. This was a serious mistake. ’80 Contemporary British estimates of Aboriginal casualties at the Battle of Pinjarra ranged from 15 to 35 people. Considering that the camp was reported to have held about 70 people, casualties in this order would have been devastating to the Pinjarup. 81 Back east, in 1838 various Aboriginal groups attacked British settlers and their stock animals in several parts of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (now Victoria).