Myall Creek: here, in 1838, a crime that would not be forgotten took place

This weekend people from all over Australia, black and white, will converge on Myall Creek. The massacre of unarmed men, women and children there has become totemic of the national silence over the frontier wars

Remembering is central to healing the pain of injustice and atrocity.

Indigenous Australians have a way of remembering, the good and the bad, through oral history and art that passes memories down through the generations.

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Descendants of victims and killers united in an act of mutual apology and forgiveness

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