Maverick, before you go all gooey and apologetic , have a read of the timeline below, it might temper your PC view of early Australia as perpetuated by the black armband brigade, re the bad white fella, good black fella stereotype...
Lot of Aborigines got payback for killing whites for no other reason than they were white, and where it was proved whites committed murder on aborigines, they often "danced at the end of a rope".
As they say, not all things are "Black and White"...
May 29 Aboriginals killed two convicts at Rushcutters Bay. No punitive action was taken against them, as the convicts had stolen canoes belonging to the Aboriginals 1789 Mar 25 Seven marines were tried for robbery of stores - six were executed on the 27th Apr An outbreak of a disease similar to the European smallpox at Sydney Cove killed many aborigines June 4 Sydney's, and Australia's first play was performed when convicts celebrated the King's birthday with a performance of Farquar's comedy, The Recruiting Officer. A gibbet was erected on Pinchgut Island and the remains of the murderer Morgan were banged there in chains. The remains were left there for three years to remind others of the Commandment, "Thou Shall not Kill".
1797 Jul 3 Governor Hunter sent a party of soldiers to protect settlers in the Hawkesbury area after a number of the settlers were killed by Aboriginals.
Oct 18 Five settlers on the Hawkesbury River were found guilty of murdering two Aborigines, but were subsequently pardoned Jun 2 The Aboriginal leader Pemulwy was shot and killed following the killing of four white men by Aborigines in the Parramatta and Toongabbie areas At the hanging of Joseph Samuals (sentenced for theft and the murder of a police constable), the rope snapped twice and unravelled once. After the crowd grew riotous, Governor King understandably reprieved the victim. Samuals later attempted to escape from the colony in an open boat with seven others in 1806, and disappeared at sea 1804 Mar 4 Convicts rebelled at Castle Hill in Australia's first and only convict uprising: 300 Irish convicts rioted and marched on Parramatta. Troops killed nine at Vinegar Hill, and the six leaders were hanged. Roman Catholic services were consequently suppressed as plotting was alleged to have taken place in them. Settlers were granted permission by Lt Moore to shoot about 500 aboriginals at Risdon Cove in Tas, starting the eventual extermination of all Aboriginals in Tas. 1805 Apr 27 Governor King sent troops to the Hawkesbury River following the killing of several settlers by Aborigines Assigned convict James Straiter was given 500 lashes and a month's solitary confinement on bread and water for inciting his masters servants to combine for higher wages and better rations Aug 5 Convict Alexander Pearce, who had twice escaped for Macquarie Harbour, who had survived by eating his not-so-fit companions, was hanged for his troubles at Hobart. Aug 14 Governor Brisbane proclaims martial law in the Bathurst district following attacks by Aborigines, in which seven whites were killed Nov 1 Martial law was proclaimed in the settled districts of Tasmania, and roving parties hunted Aborigines. Oct 7 Lt Governor Arthur (Tasmania) organised a drive by police, soldiers and settlers to capture and confine all Tasmanian Aborigines. Only two were captured, and a further two were shot A total of over 53,000 lashes were given in over 1,100 floggings of convicts during the year ~ 250 convicts received 9,900 lashes between them. It was not noted how many died as a result. Aug 17 Five of the Tolpuddle Martyrs arrived in Sydney after being sentenced to seven years transportation for conspiring to raise wages "by administering unlawful oaths". Oct 28 The Battle of Pinjarra was fought in Western Australia - an armed party of police, soldiers and civilians clashed with a band of Aborigines, in a reprisal action against the Aborigines for killing Hugh Nesbit in Apr. At least 14 Aborigines were killed, and the police superintendent died from spear wounds Jan Almost all of the few remaining Tasmanian Aborigines surrendered and were placed on Flinders Island, effectively removing all Aborigines from Tasmania Feb 26 Reflecting the hazards of travel at the time, the Migrant ship Lady MeNaghten arrives in Sydney with 44 children having died of measles and whooping cough, and 10 adults of typhus on the long journey. A further 80 died after landing at Sydney. Mar Apr 11 Aborigines attacked a party of men and cattle belonging to George and William Faithful at Ovens River, near present-day Benalla in Victoria, and 8 whites were killed Jun 9 Station hands on Henry Dangar's Myall Creek station near present-day Inverell massacred 28 Aborigines, supposedly in retaliation for the Aboriginals killing several hut keepers and two shepherds. On Nov 15, 11 of them were tried for murder and acquitted on a technicality, but seven were charged again, with the murder of one of the Aboriginal children and found guilty in Nov, and hanged on Dec 18. May 31 Surveyor GC Stapylton and his assistant were killed by aboriginals near the McPherson Range in Old. Jun 18 The Brigantine Maria was wrecked at Coorong, SA, and 27 of the passengers and crew were killed by Aboriginals. Two natives were hanged in reprisal on 25 Aug.
Aug 27 Police and volunteers killed about 50 Aborigines in a confrontation near the Rufus River, in south western NSW. Jun 28 Aborigines killed two brothers from Gregory Blaxland's Gin Gin Station near Bundaberg, leading to a massacre by whites of a large number of Aborigines Dec 22 The Clipper Ticonderoga arrives at Port Phillip with 646 migrants, 96 having died from typhus on the journey, and a further 82 dying at the new Point Nepean quarantine station Oct 27 Aborigines of the Jinman tribe killed 11 whites including Martha Fraser, of Horner Bank Station, in central Queensland, and seven of their children Sep 23 The vessel Sapphire was wrecked near Raine Island in the Great Barrier Reef, and all but one of the crew of 18 were killed by Aboriginals on reaching Hammond Island 1861 Oct 17 Aborigines massacred 18 whites at Cullin-la-ringo Station, near Springsure, in Queensland. A vengeful party of whites subsequently slaughtered a large number of aborigines.
1883 Jan 24 Aborigines ambushed and killed the officer in charge of native police at Cloncurry in Qld, and four of the police. More than a year of battles between whites and Aborigines ensued.
Sep 30 In a pitched battle at Prospector's Creek, 120 klms north west of Cloncurry in Qld, between Kalkadoon tribesmen and a punitive force of Police and native police led by FC Urquhart, most of the Kalkadoon warriors were wiped out. 1900 Jul 20 Jimmy Governor, with his brother Joe and another Aboriginal named Jacky Underwood, murdered five whites at Breelong in NSW. They subsequently killed another four during a 14 week rampage. Jimmy was captured on Oct 17, and eventually hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol on Jan 18, 1901. His brother Joe was shot dead on Oct 31
You might note the treatment meted out by the establishment to troublesome whites wasnt that flash either..
