The rigours of truth-telling: Sir Samuel Griffith and Queensland’s violent frontier / Raymond Evans.

Brisbane : Supreme Court Library Queensland 2024

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Griffith, Samuel Walker, -- Sir, -- Judge, -- appointed 1893-1903.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.

Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.

The first Selden Society lecture for 2024 will be, The rigours of truth-telling: Sir Samuel Griffith and Queensland’s violent frontier, presented by Dr Raymond Evans.-- Dr Evans will address the current controversy surrounding the career of Sir Samuel Walker Griffith and the claim that his historical reputation and legacy is marred by responsibility for the high degree of racial violence along the Queensland colony’s frontiers in the later nineteenth century. -- The lecture builds upon Dr Evans’ recently published essay, ‘Samuel Griffith and Queensland’s “War of Extermination”’.

Dr Raymond Evans, 'The rigours of truth-telling: Sir Samuel Griffith and Queensland’s violent frontier', 2024 Selden Society Lecture 1 given at the Banco Court, Brisbane, 22 Feb 2024

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