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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Battle of One Tree Hill : The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland
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'In 1840, Brisbane was the furthest outpost of settled Australia. On all sides, it was embedded in a richly Indigenous world. Over the next few years, mostly from across New South Wales northern plains, a large push of pastoralists poured into the Darling Downs, Lockyer and much of southern Queensland, establishing huge sheep stations. The violence that erupted welded many of the tribal groups into an alliance that, by 1842, was working to halt the advance.

'The Battle of One Tree Hill tells the story of one of the most audacious stands against this migration. It concerns actions engineered by a father and son, Moppy and Multuggerah. In 1843, this culminated in an ingenious ambush and one of the first solid defeats of white settlement in Queensland.

'The battle at Mount Table Top, 128 kilometres west of Brisbane, astounded many at the time. The response was most likely the largest action of the frontier wars: the assembly of some 100 or more officers, soldiers, police and armed settlers – much of the region’s white settlement – drawn from hundreds of square kilometres. This force sought to drive out the warriors, but despite their best efforts, resistance not only persisted, but managed a few more victories. A fort had to be established to protect travellers, and brutal skirmishes, massacres, raids and robberies trickled on for decades.

'The Battle of One Tree Hill introduces us to many of  the flamboyant characters, curious reversals of fortune and neglected incidents that together helped establish early Queensland. This narrative work combines decades of archival research, analysis, reconstruction and interviews conducted by historians Ray Kerkhove and Frank Uhr.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Salisbury, Salisbury - Acacia Ridge - Sunnybank area, Brisbane - South & South West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Boolarong Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 294p.p.
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      • Published: 9th September 2019
      ISBN: 9781925877304 (pbk)

Works about this Work

The Battle of One Tree Hill: The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland Roger Ford , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History Journal , April no. 45 2022;

— Review of The Battle of One Tree Hill : The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland Frank Uhr , Ray Kerkhove , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
'The opening of south-east Queensland to ‘free settlement’ by the British colonial authorities in 1841 signalled the end of the convict era and the rapid establishment of the pastoral industry. An immediate consequence of the decision was the escalation of violence between the Indigenous traditional owners of the land and the new arrivals. The Battle of One Tree Hill by Brisbane historians Ray Kerkhove and Frank Uhr provides a detailed account of Queensland’s first theatre of frontier conflict. Fought across the Lockyer and Brisbane river valleys for much of the 1840s, a coalition of Indigenous groups enacted a determined campaign of resistance against the European colonisers who took their lands and violated their laws and traditions.' 

 (Introduction)

Frontier Thinking Henry Reynolds , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , April 2020;

— Review of The Battle of One Tree Hill : The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland Frank Uhr , Ray Kerkhove , 2019 multi chapter work criticism ; Surviving New England Callum Clayton-Dixon , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
'Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers'
The Battle of One Tree Hill: The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland Roger Ford , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History Journal , April no. 45 2022;

— Review of The Battle of One Tree Hill : The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland Frank Uhr , Ray Kerkhove , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
'The opening of south-east Queensland to ‘free settlement’ by the British colonial authorities in 1841 signalled the end of the convict era and the rapid establishment of the pastoral industry. An immediate consequence of the decision was the escalation of violence between the Indigenous traditional owners of the land and the new arrivals. The Battle of One Tree Hill by Brisbane historians Ray Kerkhove and Frank Uhr provides a detailed account of Queensland’s first theatre of frontier conflict. Fought across the Lockyer and Brisbane river valleys for much of the 1840s, a coalition of Indigenous groups enacted a determined campaign of resistance against the European colonisers who took their lands and violated their laws and traditions.' 

 (Introduction)

Frontier Thinking Henry Reynolds , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , April 2020;

— Review of The Battle of One Tree Hill : The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland Frank Uhr , Ray Kerkhove , 2019 multi chapter work criticism ; Surviving New England Callum Clayton-Dixon , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
'Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers'
Last amended 1 Jun 2022 07:36:36
Subjects:
  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • 1840s
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