Clash with Aboriginal people on Yardea station, Gawler Ranges, c March 1882

Date: 1 Mar 1882
Place: Yardea station
Reports that hundreds of Aboriginal people were coming into the Gawler ranges because of the drought and that a clash had occurred on Yardea station in which one man was killed and another injured
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Clash with Aboriginal people on Yardea station, Gawler Ranges, c March 1882
    1 Mar 1882 — Yardea station
    Reports that hundreds of Aboriginal people were coming into the Gawler ranges because of the drought and that a clash had occurred on Yardea station in which one man was killed and another injured
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier