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O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre

Kate Auty

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Description:A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920sIn June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Aboriginal people near the Forrest River Mission in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence descended. Witnesses vanished. Charges against two of the officers were dropped for insufficient evidence.One of the massacre’s perpetrators was Bernard O’Leary, a former soldier whose land holding was known as ‘the underworld’. At the 1927 royal commission into the killings, O’Leary was portrayed by his lawyer as a simple honest bushman who had been framed. In this powerful account, Kate Auty argues that O’Leary was in fact ‘vicious, brazen and a bullshitter’, with ‘a propensity for brutality’. Although never charged, he played a leading role in the murders, and his duplicitous testimony thwarted the commission’s work. In electric prose, Auty depicts O’Leary as a merciless killer, while the apparatus that concealed his crimes is portrayed with great realism and clarity. Driven by both forensic and moral judgement, the book exposes the injustices embedded in Australian settlement history, and the culture of denial that has prevented truth-telling in this country.‘A major contribution to the study of frontier massacres in Australia’ —Lyndall RyanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre. To get started finding O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920sIn June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Aboriginal people near the Forrest River Mission in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence descended. Witnesses vanished. Charges against two of the officers were dropped for insufficient evidence.One of the massacre’s perpetrators was Bernard O’Leary, a former soldier whose land holding was known as ‘the underworld’. At the 1927 royal commission into the killings, O’Leary was portrayed by his lawyer as a simple honest bushman who had been framed. In this powerful account, Kate Auty argues that O’Leary was in fact ‘vicious, brazen and a bullshitter’, with ‘a propensity for brutality’. Although never charged, he played a leading role in the murders, and his duplicitous testimony thwarted the commission’s work. In electric prose, Auty depicts O’Leary as a merciless killer, while the apparatus that concealed his crimes is portrayed with great realism and clarity. Driven by both forensic and moral judgement, the book exposes the injustices embedded in Australian settlement history, and the culture of denial that has prevented truth-telling in this country.‘A major contribution to the study of frontier massacres in Australia’ —Lyndall RyanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre. To get started finding O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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