Conspiracy of Silence by Timothy Bottoms

Conspiracy Of Silence Is The First Systematic Account Of Frontier Violence In Queensland.

Following In The Tracks Of The Pastoralists As They Moved Into New Lands Across The State In The Nineteenth Century, Timothy Bottoms Identifies Massacres, Poisonings And Other Incidents, Including Many That No-one Has Documented In Print Before. He Explores The Colonial Mindset And Explains How The Brutal Dispossession Of Aboriginal Landowners Continued Over Decades.–publisher’s Website. Post-convict Era And The Future South-east Queensland — European Invasion Of The Future Southern Queensland — European Invasion Of The Future Central Queensland — South-west Queensland-the Channel Country — Poisonings And Sexual Exploitation — Early Gulf And Central Queensland — The Frontier Moves To Far North Queensland And Cape York Penisula — Dark Deeds In The Northern Rainforests-the Tully And Cairns Districts — The Gulf Country And Western Queensland — Queensland’s Disreputable Reputation. Timothy Bottoms. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 209-249) And Index. Timothy Bottoms Is A Cairns-based Historian And Author Of Djabugay Country And A History Of Cairns.

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• 172 pages