The Border Police of New South Wales was a frontier policing body introduced by the colonial government of New South Wales with the passing of the Crown Lands Unauthorised Occupation Act 1839.
Commissioner Henry Bingham c1840
The squatting districts of New South Wales in 1844
Dr Stephen Simpson
Christopher Rolleston
Eumeralla Wars
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The Eumeralla Wars were the violent encounters over the possession of land between British colonists and Gunditjmara Aboriginal people in what is now called the Western District area of south-west Vic
Border Police of New South Wales
…his troopers were involved in a series of skirmishes with clans of the Djab Wurrung and Dhauwurd Wurrung people which was later to become known as the Eumeralla Wars. British settlers in the region around the Eumeralla River were in near continuous battles with the local Aboriginal people over possession of the land…
Port Fairy Aboriginal Massacre Monument