Remembering the Myall Creek massacre 186 years on

The 1838 Myall Creek massacre is marked each year with a memorial at the northern NSW site. (HANDOUT/MYALL CREEK MEMORIAL COMMITTEE)

Every June hundreds of people gather in northern NSW to remember the massacre of Aboriginal people at the hands of non-Indigenous settlers. 

On June 10, 1838, a group of 11 settlers rode onto Myall Creek station, killing 28 Aboriginal men women and children.