Native Police Regulations as published in Queensland Government Gazette (10 March 1866) Rule 1 was not included. It is impossible to give precise directions for the execution of every duty which the force may be required to perform, or to anticipate every difficulty which its members may have to encounter, [...]
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Volume 100 Issue 1Â (Jun 2014) The conspiracy of silence: Queensland's frontier killing times [Book Review] Bennett, Michael Abstract: Review(s) of: The conspiracy of silence: Queensland's frontier killing times, by Timothy Bottoms, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2013, xxv + 258 pages; ISBN 978 1 74331 382 4. [...]
The History of CAIRNS has been nominated for the 2016 Queensland Literary Award. CAIRNS, City of the South Pacific, A History 1770-1995 written by local author, Dr Tim Bottoms, has been nominated for the Premiers Award for a work of state significance. The 600 page book has enjoyed outstanding reviews, with renowned Australian historian, Professor [...]
In mid-July 1876, sub-collector of Customs Brinsley Guise Sheridan set out from Cardwell, sailed his sleek pilot cutter up the Queensland coast, rounded Cape Grafton and put in at a muddy, unprepossessing river-mouth. Mangrove creeks, an open stretch of forest country: was this really the ideal port site for the new goldfields of the [...]
Dr Timothy Bottoms author of Conspiracy of Silence, Queensland's frontier killing times (Allen & Unwin 2013) reflects on the 2015 Anzac march in Canberra In early 2015 I was invited to go to Canberra to talk about the frontier wars in colonial Queensland at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. My host was Graeme Dunstan from PeaceBus.com. [...]
Tonight we talk about killing times. Cairns-based historian Timothy Bottoms has drawn a new map of Queensland, that places many more sites of massacres of Aboriginal people into the story than have ever been acknowledged before. And while he argues that this is a story of deep silences, what he demonstrates is how public [...]
