This school for Koori children closes in 1820 when Koori families withdraw their children. They realise its aim is to distance them from their families and communities. In Tasmania, settlers are authorised to shoot Aborigines. Martial law is declared in Bathurst NSW after conflict with Aborigines becomes a serious threat to white settlement. Tasmanian Aboriginal are people forcibly settled on Flinders Island.
Conditions are appalling and many die.
Later the community is moved to Cape Barren Island. Governor Stirling leads 25 mounted police against Aborigines. Official records say 14 Aboriginal people are killed. Aboriginal accounts suggest a tribe is wiped out in the attack. 1837 British Select Committee examines the treatment of Indigenous people in all British colonies.