Contact+on+the+Frontier

There was no law and order on the frontier. The frontier moved further inland every year.
 * Contact on the Frontier**

The frontier hit us after Mitchell's explorations of 1835 and 1836. White men were settling in by 1850.

Here's a timeline:


 * 1835 Mitchell: Bourke to Menindee**
 * 1836 Mitchell: Darling Junction to Burtundy**
 * 1848 Francis MacCabe surveys Darling; Weinteriga and Tintinallogy occupied; Native Police formed**
 * 1850 Settlement at ‘Mount Murchison’ (Wilcannia)**
 * 1852 Settlement at Menindee**
 * 1856 Native Police depot set up at Tintinallogy**
 * 1859 Darling navigated by steamer to Bourke**
 * 1860 Burke and Wills camp at Menindee**
 * 1863** **Township of Menindie** **gazetted;** **Nanya runs off from Cuthero**
 * 1866 Township of Wilcannia gazetted**

Here are some stories of early battles: The whole process of making Aboriginal people 'quiet'. A massacre of Paakantyi people in 1841. Here it is in cartoon form. A massacre of Aboriginal people in NSW that saw 7 murderers hanged.

Major Mitchell was the first explorer in Victoria in 1836. From 1836 to 1850 -- 14 years!!! -- many, many Aboriginal people were killed. This map shows only the killings we know about. By1850 the white men had colonised **all** of Victoria, except for the desert parts in the west and the mountains in the east. In 1860 the head of the Victorian government said, "Victoria has no Aboriginal problem."