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If you are interested in citing or using any information on this site, please see the Terms Of Use.
This site represents the best information available to our research team and is a starting point for further research. Please read the Introduction to understand the information on this site.
With stage 5 of this website in 2024 work on the project has ended and reflects the best information available at the time. While future research will most likely improve information about massacres, there will be no further updates to this site. We hope it will provide a useful and stable reference point on which to base further research.
Throughout the project we have welcomed suggestions for additions or modifications to the site, the data and the map. We take potential errors seriously. This was an ongoing project that invited corrections from the public. Each potential modification to data was investigated and information on the website updated accordingly. Due to the large volume of comments, it sometimes took a long time to work through each case as we were a small team with limited funding.
We maintained rigorous standards for inclusion and use conservative estimates. This does not mean we were dismissing or downplaying the incidents - instead we hoped to protect the integrity of the information and that this will help bring more evidence to light. While violence was more widespread than can be indicated on this map, we aimed to establish with confidence that, at the very least, these massacres occurred and this many people were killed in them.
We hope the Colonial Frontier Massacres website provides a valuable reference for future research, and helps further understanding of our history.
Please direct enquiries to Bill Pascoe, employed at the University of Melbourne and University of Newcastle at time of writing, 2024.