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| home | news lMassacres need to be recognised: Aboriginal activist11 June 2007 - One of northern New South Wales' leading Aboriginal activists has used a memorial service for the victims of the Myall Creek massacre near Bingara, west of Inverell, more than 160 years ago to re-ignite the sorry debate. Lyall Munro Senior, of Moree, has written to the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader to say reconciliation cannot take place if governments do not address the history of the treatment of Aboriginal people. Mr Munro says Myall Creek is the first place in Australia where the perpetrators of an atrocity against Indigenous Australians felt the full weight of the law. But he says there were many others that went unrecognised, including some in the New England and NSW north-west. "You had so many hundreds of massacres across Australia," he said. "One of the first is certainly at Myall Creek, also in the Moree district we've got Slaughterhouse Creek, and Millie Creek." Source: ABC
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its one year on from the Australian Governments controversial intervention into NT Indigenous communities
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