March 6, 2021

Frontier War Stories – Lynley Wallis – Queensland Native Mounted Police

Episode Fifteen Boe yarns with Lynley A. Wallis who is an Australian archaeologist and Associate Professor at Griffith University. The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated for over 50 years, from 1849 until 1904. It was organised along paramilitary …
LISTEN ON
SHARE

About the Show

Episode Fifteen Boe yarns with Lynley A. Wallis who is an Australian archaeologist and Associate Professor at Griffith University.

The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated for over 50 years, from 1849 until 1904. It was organised along paramilitary lines, consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. It operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and punish) any Aboriginal aggression or resistance. This was often accomplished through violence in many forms, leading Henry Reynolds to characterise the NMP as “the most violent organisation in Australian history”.

Frontier War Stories
Frontier War Stories
Frontier War Stories - Lynley Wallis - Queensland Native Mounted Police
Loading
/
Frontier War Stories – Lynley Wallis – Queensland Native Mounted Police

Be the first to know about new shows and new events

New episodes

Subscribe to learn about our new episodes.

Be our guest?