| Site Name | Ouse River |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Big River |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Clyde |
| Latitude | -42.481 |
| Longitude | 146.715 |
| Date | Between 1 Oct 1829 and 31 Oct 1829 |
| Attack Time | night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 10 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 7 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Military, Field Police, Settler, Stockkeeper |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 7?shepherds and colonists, F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, blades, cutlass |
| Narrative | After a series of attacks by Aborigines on shepherds’ huts and the killing of seven of them, the historian James Bonwick was later told that 'without warning an expedition was fitted out in the night and a terrible slaughter took place.' |
| Sources | Bonwick 1870: 66. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
