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'They came to praise Fred Hollows, and to bury him. The Town of Bourke, in far north western New South Wales, had never seen the like... The grave ceremony was a mixture of tears, joys, laughter and applause...'
In six editions of this newspaper, will feature Rivers of Blood, an in-depth series about the massacres of Kooris in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. The series also tells of their resistance against European occupation of their traditional lands.