Australian native police
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Australian native police were specialised mounted military units consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers under the command of European officers appointed by British colonial governments. The
Native Police unit, Rockhampton, Queensland, 1864
Tracker-turned-bushranger and resistance leader Musquito
Native Police of Port Phillip, 1850
John Murray
Australian frontier wars
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The Australian frontier wars were the violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and mostly British settlers from the colonial period of Australia to at least 1928.
New South Wales Mounted Police engaging Aboriginal warriors during the Waterloo Creek massacre of 1838
"Night Attack by Blacks", monotone painting by Livingston Hopkins
Indigenous group on the banks of the River Torrens, 1850
Aboriginal warrior