The conspiracy of silence : Queensland's frontier killing-times / Timothy Bottoms.

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2013.

1st edition

84012

Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland.

Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century.

Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Queensland -- 19th century.

Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Government relations -- 19th century.

Aboriginal Australians -- Wars.

Government, Resistance to -- Queensland.

Queensland Colonization History.

Queensland -- Race relations -- History.

1. Post-convict era and the future South-East Queensland

2. European invasion of the future Southern Queensland

3. European invasion of the future Central Queensland

4. South-West Queensland - the Channel Country

5. Poisonings and sexual exploitation

6. Early Gulf- and Central Queensland

7. The frontier moves to Far North Queensland and Cape York Peninsula

8. Dark deeds in the Northern rainforests - the Tully and Cairns Districts

9. The Gulf Country and Western Queensland

10. Queensland's disreputable reputation.

Mr Bottoms is a Cairns-based historian. In this carefully footnoted work, he seeks to provide "the first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland."

Includes bibliographic references and index.

9781743313824

xxv, 258 pages, [12 pages] of plates : illustrations., maps, portraits. ; 24 cm