| Site Name | Callandoon Station, MacIntyre River |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Gungabula |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Warialda |
| Latitude | -28.525 |
| Longitude | 150.152 |
| Date | Between 1 Oct 1847 and 5 Oct 1847 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 47 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Musket(s), Carbine(s) |
| Narrative | Following the massacre of forty Aboriginal people at Boonall Station by squatter James Mark in retaliation for Aboriginal people killing his son, he continued his revenge rampage with native police from Warialda and shot 47 Aboriginal people at Callandoon station (Copland, 2001, p 86). Copland wrote that, 'Marks travelled throughout the district recruiting white stockmen and landholders for a vigilante party to avenge the death of his son...' and they were joined by Chief Constables McGee and Hancock. 'From October 1847 a number of attacks upon camps of Aborigines occurred. Primary sources suggest that at least 47 Aboriginal people were killed at the hands of Marks' men.' (Copland, 2001) |
| Sources | Tonge, nd, pp 22-24; Copland, 2001, p 85 https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Policing_the_Lucky_Country/THpskGENKeEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR3&printsec=frontcover; Richards, 2008, pp 65-66 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tIYR-qSLzW0C&pg=PA44&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false; SMH October 15, 1847 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12901587. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
