… The Myall Creek massacre was an unprovoked and premeditated act. Sadly, it was one of the many such massacres that occurred all along the settlement frontier during the nineteenth century. The truth is that gangs of stockmen regularly went on Aboriginal hunts. These are commonly remembered in white tradition as "a big bush whack", or simply "a drive". Nigel Parbury's book Survival records another massacre which occurred in 1865. A gang of stockmen, acting on advice and example by Major Nunn, also went on a drive which lasted several months. It culminated in the massacre of more than 200 Aboriginal people at Slaughterhouse Creek at the end of May ... 

The Myall Creek massacre occurred on 10 June 1838 when twelve European settlers, seeking revenge after conflicts with local Indigenous people, came across a group of approximately 30 Wirrayaraay people at Myall Creek who they captured and subsequently murdered. The men returned two days later to the scene of the massacre to burn the bodies. Eleven of the twelve men involved in the massacre were arrested shortly after the event but not found guilty. A second charge was issued to arrest seven of the men who were re-tried and found guilty resulting in a sentence of death. Despite several legal petitions from the convicted, the sentence was carried out and the men were hanged on Tuesday 18th December 1838.