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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"From the vicinity of Goondiwindi and the New South Wales border ... some 1,500 natives (arrived for the bunya bunya) .... the Dalby police force is totally inadequate to cope with such overwhelming odds"
- Dalby Herald, 24/5/1866

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td008a
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Kerkhove, Ray The Great Bunya Gathering, Early Accounts Enoggera, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/8244371/The_Great_Bunya_Gathering_Early_Accounts