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Myall Creek: Paper makes historic apology for Aboriginal massacre reports

2023-06-09 14:49
The Sydney Morning Herald spread racist views and misinformation in a campaign for the killers' freedom.
Myall Creek: Paper makes historic apology for Aboriginal massacre reports

An Australian paper has offered a historic apology for its coverage of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1838.

At least 28 people, mainly women and children, were brutally murdered in the New South Wales town of Myall Creek.

The massacre was the first - and only - time colonists were prosecuted...