Find the Cited References for Woolworths’ Vouchers Worth $100
In the aftermath of a series of Quadrant articles penned in 2000 by Keith Windschuttle, social historian Raymond Evans co-authored a detailed rebuttal in Overland Journal. [Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal History, No 163, Winter 2001, p21-39 - essay here, full magazine for download here]
In his essay, Evans cited one source extensively - that of an unpublished manuscript by a Queensland researcher named Alan Hillier. Somewhat surprisingly however, Evans has elsewhere described this source as being the “research of amateur historian, Alan Hillier.”
Now we have nothing against ‘amateur historians’ per se, but scholarly prudence would require us to actually read Hillier’s manuscript ourselves and do some cross-checking with independent sources to see if Hillier’s claims are valid.
But there is a problem - we have searched high and low for a copy of Hillier’s manuscript and cannot find one. Thus, we are concerned that we cannot easily. corroborate Evan’s claims in his essay when he cites Hillier’s ‘research’, as in Figure 1:
Figure 1 - Raymond Evans and Bill Thorpe citing Alan Hillier’s claims in their essay, Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal History, Overland Journal, No 163, Winter 2001, p27 . Source: here,
A screenshot of the citation #27 that Evans & Thorpe published in their essay is shown in Figure 2:
Figure 2 - Alan Hillier, “If You Leave Me Alone, I’ll Leave You Alone”. Biographical Sketches, Reports and Incidents from the Myall Wars of the Queensland Native Mounted Police Force 1860 - 1885, unpublished ms., nd.
PRIZE 1 - We are offering a $100 Woolworths’ voucher to the first person who can provide Dark Emu Exposed [dark.emu.exposed@gmail.com] with a full copy of the manuscript :
Alan Hillier, “If You Leave Me Alone, I’ll Leave You Alone”. Biographical Sketches, Reports and Incidents from the Myall Wars of the Queensland Native Mounted Police Force 1860 - 1885, unpublished ms., nd.
PRIZE 2
Evans & Thorpe also cite Hillier, as well as the 1900 Annual Report of British New Guinea, with regard to a series of claims regarding William Armit (See Figure 3).
Figure 3 - Excerpt screenshot from Raymond Evans and Bill Thorpe citation of Alan Hillier’s manuscript and the 1900 Annual Report for British New Guinea claims, in their essay, Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal History, Overland Journal, No 163, Winter 2001, p27-8 . Source: here,
Evans & Thorpe detail the citation #30 as being a memo in the August 1900 British New Guinea Annual Report, plus a reference in Hillier’s unpublished manuscript (Figure 4):
Figure 4 - Annual Reports on British New Guinea in Trove here
Surprisingly, when we checked page xxix of the British New Guinea Annual Report encompassing August 1900 we could not find any reference to a ‘Patrol officer memo’ containing these words of ‘dispersal’, ‘salutary lesson’ or the killing of ‘fifty-four tribespeople and the wounding of many more’’ (See Figure 5).
Figure 5 - Page xxix from the 1900 Annual Report for British New Guinea. Source page
Now, maybe we have made a mistake and missed the reference, or Hillier misquoted his citation details [it may not be 1900 but another year?], or the National Archives on Trove mis-referenced or mis-linked the original file. We don’t know other than we can’t find the supposed reference relied upon by Evans & Thorpe.
The PRIZE 2 therefore is a $100 Woolworths’ voucher to the first person who can provide Dark Emu Exposed [dark.emu.exposed@gmail.com] with a copy of a relevant Patrol Officer memo, or otherwise, containing the words and meaning’s claimed by Evans & Thorpe - ie ‘dispersal’, ‘salutary lesson’ or the killing of ‘fifty-four tribespeople’, etc within the British New Guide Annual Reports, which are all here for each of the years of administration.
Good Luck!
