Frontier Wars
South Australia
In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier (2007)
Nettelbeck, Amanda and Robert Foster
In 1891 Mounted Constable William Willshire, the Officer in Charge of the Native Police, was arrested for the murder of two Aboriginal men. His career was centred in the Northern Territory (then administered by South Australia) during the 1880s and 1890s. Aboriginal resistance to European incursions upon their land was at its height, and it escalated the hardening of racial attitudes and national sentiment.
