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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ella Archibald-Binge, Lorena Allam and Sarah Collard

Arsenic in the damper, campers driven off a cliff: the murky historical links of AACo, Australia’s largest beef producer

Composite of Jesse Gregson overlaid with a tree
Jesse Gregson headed one of Australia’s most important enterprises, AACo, in the late 1800s. Composite: Tamati Smith/Victoria Hart/Noel Butlin Archives/ANU

Warning: This article contains historical records that use racist and offensive language, and descriptions of events that will be distressing to some readers. It also contains references to Indigenous Australians who have died

In a bustling Newcastle suburb there is a large park where families gather under giant fig trees. Few know it is named after a man who killed Aboriginal people.

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