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Paul Daley examines new evidence tracing the shared history of Ngadjon man Narcha, and Douglas Grant, the black Australian soldier and first world war one hero, who were both survivors of a Queensland massacre
Butchers Creek isn’t flowing today despite the rain that whips across the cane fields in drenching horizontal sheets.
So imbued with evil happening is Butchers Creek that my imagination had rendered it a treacherous torrent inside a deep, black ravine. But it’s scarcely a creek at all – more a shallow furrow, carpeted with lush grass, that snakes its way through a clearing and into the rainforest.
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Narcha was given to wear a plate inscribed 'Naicha, King Boonjie'
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