Myall Creek Massacre involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed Australian Aborigines on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near Bingara in northern New South Wales. After two trials, seven of the 11 settlers involved in the killings were found guilty of murder and hanged.
The case led to significant uproar among sections of the population and the media, sometimes voiced in favour of the perpetrators. For example, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald declared that "the whole gang of black animals are not worth the money the colonists will have to pay for printing the silly court documents on which we have already wasted too much time".
John Fleming, the leader of the massacre, was never captured, and was allegedly responsible for further massacres throughout the Liverpool Plains and New England regions.[citation needed] His brother, Joseph Fleming, was also linked to massacres in the Maranoa region of south-western Queensland.
