Let’s bury our hearts at Myall Creek
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Graeme Cordiner; 2/6/08
Myall Creek is hardly a metropolis. In fact no one actually lives there. It is marked only by a large corrugated tin hall, commemorating the fallen in battle in the World Wars, a loo, and a couple of clay tennis courts, now sadly overgrown. This June long weekend, as I have done every year for several years, I will travel from Sydney to Myall Creek near Inverell. It is not such a big deal. It means a couple of nights away, leaving Friday, returning Sunday, but it is a commitment on my part, and hundreds of others. Why do I do it? Myall Creek is the site of an infamous massacre of Aboriginal people in 1838. Nothing unusual in that perhaps, as there were many massacres, some far larger than the 27 or so women, children and men killed that day. Not far from Myall Creek, at Waterloo Creek, there had been a far larger massacre, by soldiers.
See:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/lets-bury-our-hearts-at-myall-creek/2008/06/01/1212258640207.html
