Conspiracy of silence
Subtitle: Queensland's frontier killing-times
By: Timothy Bottoms
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781743313824
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Race relations; Frontier and pioneer life; Resistance to Government; History; Wars; Aboriginal Australians; Colonization
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index.

Timothy Bottoms is a Cairns-based historian and author of Djabugay Country and A History of Cairns.
Table of contents: title: Post-convict era and the future South-East Queensland; title: European invasion of the future Southern Queensland; title: European invasion of the future Central Queensland; title: South-West Queensland-the channel country; title: Poisonings and sexual exploitation; title: Early Gulf and Central Queensland; title: The frontier moves to far North Queensland and Cape York penisula; title: Dark deeds in the northern rainforests-the Tully and Cairns districts; title: The Gulf country and Western Queensland; title: Queensland's disreputable reputation.