Gippsland massacres

The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European invasion of their land. The technical superiority of the Europeans' weapons gave the Europeans an absolute advantage. At least 300 people were killed, but other figures estimate up to 1,000; however, it is extremely difficult to be certain about the real death toll as so few records still exist or were even made at the time. Diseases introduced from the 1820s by European sealers and whalers also caused a rapid decline in Aboriginal numbers. The following list was compiled from such things as letters and diaries.

Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick wrote in a letter home to his relatives in England in 1846:

Refer to an article by a Gippsland journalist, Andrew Rule, published in The Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/26/1019441303552.html

...
Wikipedia