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• Title:Conspiracy of silence : Queensland's frontier killing-times / Timothy Bottoms.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bottoms, Timothy (Timothy David Reis), author.
  
• Published/Created:Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2013.
  ©2013
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN667.Q4 B68 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Queensland--History.
  Aboriginal Australians--Wars.
  Government, Resistance to--Australia--Queensland.
  Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Queensland.
  Queensland--Colonization--History.
  Queensland--Race relations--History.
  
• Description:xxv, 258 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Conspiracy of Silence is the first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland. Following in the tracks of the pastoralists as they moved into new lands across the state in the nineteenth century, Timothy Bottoms identifies massacres, poisonings and other incidents, including many that no-one has documented in print before. He explores the colonial mindset and explains how the brutal dispossession of Aboriginal landowners continued over decades."--Publishers website
  
• Biography/history note:Timothy Bottoms is a Cairns-based historian and author of Djabugay Country and A History of Cairns.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781743313824 (paperback)
  1743313829 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Post-convict era and the future South-East Queensland
  European invasion of the future Southern Queensland
  European invasion of the future Central Queensland
  South-West Queensland-the channel country
  Poisonings and sexual exploitation
  Early Gulf and Central Queensland
  The frontier moves to far North Queensland and Cape York penisula
  Dark deeds in the northern rainforests-the Tully and Cairns districts
  The Gulf country and Western Queensland
  Queensland's disreputable reputation.