Published: September 20, 2018
The real ‘settler’ and pioneering stories of Feilberg’s Queensland were confronting and frightening
During his short life Danish-born Carl Feilberg risked more than any other Australian journalist or author to expose the brutality against Indigenous people on the ultra-violent Queensland colonial frontier of the late 19th century.
He wrote millions of words provoking the conscience of townspeople, frontiersman and politicians in Australia and Britain. His writings about colonial violence against Aboriginal people impacted federation and regional geopolitics, and enhanced understanding of frontier war for generations of progressive Australian historians.
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