This chapter describes the Myall Creek Massacre in the context of other massacres and violence on the Frontier in that period.

Lyndall Ryan, 'The Myall Creek Massacre - Was it typical of the time?' in Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan (ed) 'Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre' (University of New South Wales Press, 2018)

As the colony continued to expand, Britain instructed NSW Governors that the law should protect Aboriginal people. This often did not happen. The prosecution and execution of the seven men responsible for the Myall Creek massacre was an exception, and happened partly because some white colonists were prepared to give...