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Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University

Friday essay: 'killed by Natives'. The stories – and violent reprisals – behind some of Australia's settler memorials

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First Nations people please be advised this article contains distressing imagery of a retaliatory shooting.

Some commemorations across this continent, despite their original intentions, inadvertently testify to the fact that Aboriginal peoples did, in fact, “fight back” and that colonisation was, in fact, violent. These commemorations typically consist of graves, memorial monuments and even place names, and they are dedicated to white settlers who were “killed by Natives”.

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