Sydney Morning Herald Myall Creek Apology (2023)

Authors are Peter FitzSimons (long description of events, drawing upon previous authors), SMH editorial writer, Jordan Baker (First Nations view), Mark Tedeschi (the work of Justice Plunkett), Brooke Boney (descendant), Lyndall Ryan (massacre mapping project), Linda Burney (Minister). The SMH notes how the paper at the time added to the rancid atmosphere around the massacre. Illustration credit (Wikimedia Commons): ReColouration of Myall Creek Massacre scene from 177 year old lithograph - "Australian Aborigines Slaughtered by Convicts, by Phiz, The Book of Remarkable Trials, 1840; Chronicles of Crime V. II, 1841." for a Gamilaraay Surviving Descendants community education project. (Creative Commons)