Massacre at Myall Creek - Mark Tedeschi QC

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Documentary, True Crime
Language: EnglishKeywords: 19th Century Aboriginal Australia
Written by Mark Tedeschi QC
Read by Stephen Briggs
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
Massacre at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation
By: Mark Tedeschi
Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
Release date
03-11-2021
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
9 hrs and 25 mins
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Australia
Categories
Biographies & Memoirs
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia’s legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it.
In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in northern New South Wales. The trial created an enormous amount of controversy because it was almost unknown for Europeans to be charged with the murder of Aborigines. It would become the most serious trial of mass murder in Australia’s history.
The trial’s prosecutor was the Attorney General of New South Wales, John Hubert Plunkett. It proved to be Plunkett’s greatest test, as it pitted his forensic brilliance and his belief in equality before the law against the combined forces of the free settlers, the squatters, the military, the emancipists, the newspapers, and even the convict population.
From the bestselling author of Kidnapped and Eugenia, Murder at Myall Creek follows the journey of the man who arguably achieved more for modern-day civil rights in Australia than anyone else before or since.
Praise for Massacre at Myall Creek
‘A deeply moving account.’ Peter FitzSimons
‘Fascinating reading.’ Weekend Australian
‘A considered and elegant work.’ Books+Publishing
Written by Mark Tedeschi QC Read by Stephen Briggs Format: M4B Bitrate: 128 Kbps Unabridged
Massacre at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation By: Mark Tedeschi Narrated by: Stephen Briggs Release date 03-11-2021 Language English Format Unabridged Audiobook Length 9 hrs and 25 mins Publisher Simon & Schuster Australia Categories Biographies & Memoirs
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia’s legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it.
In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in northern New South Wales. The trial created an enormous amount of controversy because it was almost unknown for Europeans to be charged with the murder of Aborigines. It would become the most serious trial of mass murder in Australia’s history.
The trial’s prosecutor was the Attorney General of New South Wales, John Hubert Plunkett. It proved to be Plunkett’s greatest test, as it pitted his forensic brilliance and his belief in equality before the law against the combined forces of the free settlers, the squatters, the military, the emancipists, the newspapers, and even the convict population.
From the bestselling author of Kidnapped and Eugenia, Murder at Myall Creek follows the journey of the man who arguably achieved more for modern-day civil rights in Australia than anyone else before or since.
Praise for Massacre at Myall Creek
‘A deeply moving account.’ Peter FitzSimons
‘Fascinating reading.’ Weekend Australian
‘A considered and elegant work.’ Books+Publishing