| Site Name | Carbucky Station |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Wiriyaraay or Gawambaraay |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Warialda |
| Latitude | -28.624 |
| Longitude | 149.981 |
| Date | Between 1 May 1849 and 31 May 1849 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 100 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Carbine(s) |
| Narrative | The massacre was carried out by 14 native police and 20 squatters and their men, led by Frederick Walker, as revenge for deaths of stockmen in the region (Collins, 2002, p. 63). W B Tooth, MLA, the local member, participated in the event. He said in evidence to an inquiry that 'Mr. Walker met the blacks killing cattle close to my camp, and they had a stand up fight for it. The blacks were so completely put down on that occasion and terrified of the power of the Police, that they never committed any more depredations near there. The place was quiet at once, and property became fifty per cent more valuable' (NSWLC V&P 1858 vol 2 p 880). The estimate of 100 Aboriginal people killed comes from the drover William Telfer, Jr (cited in Collins, 2002, p 63). |
| Sources | Skinner 1975, pp 29-31 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:193014 ; NSWLC V&P 1858 vol. 2. p 880 https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collections/remove/91884.pdf; Copland 1990, p 111 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:328072 ; Collins 2002, p 63 https://www.goodbyebussamarai.com/text. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
