Gomeroi Resistance

Events in will be added as research continues as part of the Australian Wars and Resistance work.

For a summary of this conflict see: https://www.mehicentre.com/our-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our Stories on the Mehi Centre website.

Mark Copland's thesis, 1990, A system of assassination : the MacIntyre River Frontier 1837-1850 has thorough detail on the McIntyre River region: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:328072

More than 150,000 words of colonial news reporting on this conflict and resistance are available in Gomeroi Resistance, Colonial News, available as:

https://australianwars.net/pub/GomeroiResistanceColonialNews.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">html (read online)

https://australianwars.net/pub/GomeroiResistanceColonialNews.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pdf (print or read offline)

https://australianwars.net/pub/GomeroiResistanceColonialNews.epub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">epub (read in ebook reader)

More sources from Government records and police reports, including more details on the early phase of the conflict and Major Nunn's expedition will be added in future. These texts will be used to identify people, places and events in this war.

Historical sources include racist attitudes and language, and descriptions of violence.