70-463: Barcaldine may refer to: Australia [ edit ] Barcaldine, Queensland , Australia Barcaldine Airport , Queensland Australia Barcaldine Region , a local government area in Queensland, Australia Shire of Barcaldine , a former local government area in Queensland, Australia United Kingdom [ edit ] Barcaldine (horse) ,
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210-515: A Methodist church was erected in Ash Street, Barcaldine, the first church in the town. The church building had previously been used at a number of railway camps involved in the construction the Central Western railway line . As each new segment of the line was completed, the camp and the church building were relocated to the new railhead. Barcaldine was its final location. In 1893 a new wooden church
280-452: A Native Police officer, achieving the rank of first lieutenant in 1861, was also a brother but it has been argued that this officer was not a relative. Frederick emigrated to Australia by the Ceylon in 1844 and was shortly after employed on William Charles Wentworth 's massive Murrumbidgee River station Tala (also known as Yanga ) where he served as superintendent. In the same year, he
350-791: A bowls, tennis clubs, a combined racecourse and showground near the golf course, a historical and folk museum, swimming pool and visitor information centre. Barcaldine Regional Council operates a library at 71 Ash Street which has a high-speed ISDN Broadband Internet connection to Brisbane (powered through the National Broadband Network . The Barcaldine branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association has its rooms at 5 Maple Street (corner of Ash Street, 23°33′14″S 145°17′28″E / 23.5540°S 145.2910°E / -23.5540; 145.2910 ( Barcaldine CWA Hall ) ). Barcaldine Uniting Church
420-576: A building in Oak Street, which burned down in 1896. A shire hall was then constructed in 1898 on the south-east corner of Ash and Beech Streets, which eventually became too small. In February 1912 a new larger shire hall was opened and that building (somewhat modified and extended) is still in use today and is heritage-listed . St Joseph's Catholic Primary School was opened in 1896 by Sisters of Mercy , specifically Sister Mary Muredach McMullen (superior), Sister Mary Catherine Cleary, and Sister Mary Fayne, with
490-597: A contrast between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' (slum dwellers and the wealthy citizens) and depicts the conflict between the squatters and pastoral workers. The preface of the book states, 'The scene is laid in Sydney because it is not thought desirable, for various reasons, to aggravate by a local plot the soreness existing in Queensland'. Barcaldine features in Hail Tomorrow : a play in four acts , written by Vance Palmer in 1947. The full-length play's conflict centres about
560-527: A museum to pay tribute to Australian workers. Barcaldine has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Barcaldine experiences a hot semi-arid climate ( Köppen: BSh), with a short wet season from December and March and a lengthy dry season from April and November, with cool nights. Average maxima vary from 22.8 °C (73.0 °F) in July to 35.8 °C (96.4 °F) in December. Average annual rainfall
630-592: A population of 1,422 people. On 26 May 2019, Barcaldine set a world record for a 9.5-kilometre (5.9 mi) line of 868 motorhomes, caravans, campervans and fifth wheelers outside the town, beating the previous record of 672 vehicles in Italy in 2003. On 22 November 2019, the Queensland Government decided to amalgamate the localities in the Barcaldine Region, resulting in five expanded localities based on
700-465: A saddlery (H. A. Hawthorne) and the Welcome Home Hotel (W. Kemp). The Barcaldine War Memorial was unveiled by Queensland Governor , Matthew Nathan , on 21 May 1924. In the 2011 census , the town of Barcaldine had a population of 1,316 people, while the locality had a population of 1,655 people. The current Barcaldine Public Library opened in 2016. In the 2016 census , Barcaldine had
770-612: A significant role in the Australian labour movement and the birth of the Australian Labor Party . In 1891, it was one of the focal points of the 1891 Australian shearers' strike , with the Eureka Flag flying over the strike camp. The landmark Tree of Knowledge , under which the strikers met, stood outside the railway station. In 2006, persons unknown poisoned the tree with the herbicide Roundup , which led to its demise. One of
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#1732837658555840-644: A special education program certified through the National Disability Insurance Scheme . St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is a Catholic primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 23 Willow Street ( 23°33′22″S 145°17′10″E / 23.5562°S 145.2862°E / -23.5562; 145.2862 ( St Joseph's Catholic Primary School ) ). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 26 students with 5 teachers (4 full-time equivalent) and 3 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). Wanpa-rda Matilda Outback Education Centre
910-487: A swimming pool using the artesian water was built by the Barcaldine Shire Council, along with baths and showers for therapeutic use. Although Barcaldine was being promoted as a spa town into the mid-1930s, interest in " taking the waters " declined after that period as medical opinion became increasingly doubtful of the benefits of mineral waters, favouring drugs and physiotherapy as better treatments. In 1887
980-417: A wanted Aboriginal man named Durobberee was present, Walker had not thought this sufficient. The Aboriginal people easily escaped. Walker later reported he had discovered that the real reason was to prevent the police from observing a runaway convict named Gilberry . Walker wrote that he had arranged a plan for his capture. It had appeared strange to Walker that none of the patrol parties had ever discovered
1050-581: A well drilled and highly disciplined band greatly committed and attached to their Commandant who remained exceedingly proud and protective of his men. Subsequently, Walker travelled with his force up the Darling River, arriving at the Macintyre River (at the present-day southeastern border of Queensland) on 10 May 1849. Once arriving on the Macintyre River on 10 May 1849, the force aggressively pacified
1120-436: Is a government primary and secondary (Early Childhood to Year 12) school for boys and girls at Gidyea Street ( 23°33′32″S 145°17′38″E / 23.5588°S 145.2940°E / -23.5588; 145.2940 ( Barcaldine Prep-12 State School ) ). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 284 students with 29 teachers (27 full-time equivalent) and 22 non-teaching staff (16 full-time equivalent). It includes
1190-1235: Is an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre at the corner of Ash and Willow Streets ( 23°33′13″S 145°17′13″E / 23.5535°S 145.2870°E / -23.5535; 145.2870 ( Wanpa-rda Matilda Outback Education Centre ) ). Barcaldine has only one commercial radio station, West FM (Resonate Radio) which transmits on 100.9 FM The Australian Broadcasting Corporation transmits ABC and its sister channels ABC Kids , ABC TV Plus , ABC Me and ABC News through its Relay Station, ABBQ ( 23°31′43″S 145°15′33″E / 23.52861°S 145.25917°E / -23.52861; 145.25917 ) The Seven Network and its sister channels 7two , 7Mate and 7Flix transmit to Barcaldine through its regional area affiliate, ITQ The Nine Network and its sister channels 9Gem , 9Go! and 9Rush transmit to Barcaldine through its regional area affiliate, IMP Network Ten and its sister channels 10 Bold , 10 Peach and 10 Shake transmit to Barcaldine through its regional area affiliate, CDT The Special Broadcasting Service and its sister channels SBS Viceland , SBS World Movies and SBS Food also transmit to Barcaldine. Barcaldine has
1260-476: Is at 7-9 Maple Street ( 23°33′17″S 145°17′28″E / 23.5547°S 145.2910°E / -23.5547; 145.2910 ( 7 May 2021 ) ). The attractions in Barcaldine include: The Working Man's Paradise: an Australian Labour novel , was written by William Lane under the pseudonym John Miller in 1892, inspired by the events of the 1891 Shearers' Strike in Barcaldine. This story shows
1330-544: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barcaldine, Queensland Barcaldine ( / b ɑːr ˈ k ɔː l d ɪ n / bar- KAWL -din ) is a rural town and locality in the Barcaldine Region in Queensland , Australia. This is the administrative centre of the Barcaldine Region . Barcaldine played a major role in the Australian labour movement . In
1400-591: Is low: 499.2 mm (19.65 in), occurring within 40.2 rainfall days; and primarily occurs from tropical cyclones or monsoonal depressions in summer. Rainfall is extremely erratic due to ENSO : with annual totals ranging from 146.0 mm (5.75 in) in 1946 to 1,333.8 mm (52.51 in) in 2010. The town is very sunny, averaging 172.7 clear days and only 61.1 cloudy days annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −1.6 °C (29.1 °F) on 20 June 1976 and 10 July 1974 to 45.1 °C (113.2 °F) on 30 November 2006. Barcaldine Prep-12 State School
1470-636: The 2021 census , Barcaldine had a population of 1,540 people. Barcaldine is in Central West Queensland , approximately 520 kilometres (320 mi) by road west of the city of Rockhampton , 406 kilometres (252 mi) north of Charleville . The town is situated on Lagoon Creek, which flows into the Alice River approximately five kilometres south of the Barcaldine. Major industries are sheep and beef cattle rearing. The streets in Barcaldine are named after different types of trees. Barcaldine lay on
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#17328376585551540-558: The Comet River . He set out with another squatter named Wiggins and three Aboriginal men, two of whom were Peabody and Jamie Sandeman, to hunt for these pastoral runs. On returning to Cockatoo, Walker's camp was attacked by local Aboriginals at Conciliation Creek in the Zamia Valley. Walker received two severe spear wounds and with difficulty made his recovery at nearby Palm Tree Creek station owned by squatters Scott and Thompson. At this time
1610-679: The Hornet Bank massacre occurred and Andrew Scott requested assistance from the now recovered Walker to assist with the protection of his newly acquired land. Walker recruited ten of his ex-Native Police troopers and formed a private militia that roamed the Dawson River area conducting punitive missions against local Aboriginal groups. Walker used Hornet Bank station as a base and travelled as far as Mount Abundance during his patrols. His troopers included Larry, Boney, Jingle, Billy, Coreen Jemmy and Coreen Neddy. The troopers were actively recruited from
1680-600: The Macintyre River (i.e., Queensland). Detachments of up to 12 troopers worked on the Clarence and Macleay Rivers in NSW until the early 1860s and patrols still extended as far south as Bourke until at least 1868. After his dismissal from the Native Police, Walker became involved in the pastoral industry as a squatter, as well as organising a private native police force and leading a number of expeditions into Northern Queensland. Walker
1750-567: The New South Wales Legislative Council . Walker had attracted attention, it was later stated, by his capacity to engage local Aborigines , understand their culture, speak their language and use this to secure peaceful coexistence between them and the white settlers. He also had previous practical experience in the Murrumbidgee District of using intertribal hostility for the benefit of colonisation . In 1847, Walker
1820-763: The local government area of Barcaldine Division was established, by separating it from the Kargoolnah Division which had its headquarters in Blackall . Since then, Barcaldine has been the headquarters of local government in the area, commencing with the Barcaldine Divisional Board , which became the Barcaldine Shire Council in 1903, and then the Barcaldine Regional Council in 2008. The initial local government meetings were held in
1890-548: The 1851 end of year report "that a great many blacks were killed," however no official action was taken to change the aggressive functioning of the force. On 11 October 1854, Walker referred to his report from 2 January 1854, of a collision between the Wide Bay Aboriginal people and the Native Police when the group had resisted the passing of the police at Obi Creek . The cause of the collision had been unknown. Although
1960-529: The Barcoo River and as a result of this expedition became one of the first British people to enter this region. In 1861 Walker led a party, ostensibly in search of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition , but his focus was more upon hunting for new pastoral runs. His meticulous journal of the search is often transcribed from the abridged version published by the Royal Geographical Society, but
2030-495: The Leichardt River, Walker's party charged another group of aboriginals resulting in 'a heavy loss.' Despite the obvious advantages in weaponry, Walker managed to find himself in a dangerous situation on 4 December. Walker and Jingle, being separated from the others and with only limited ammunition and one horse, were being surrounded and had to flee in panic for eighteen miles before considering themselves safe. Three days later,
2100-621: The Macintyre district. His stated aim was their annihilation, and by 1854 only 100 of the Bigambul people were left alive. Walker expanded the Native Police force during the early 1850s into the Wide Bay-Burnett , Maranoa , Clarence River , Macleay River , Dawson River , Port Curtis and Darling Downs regions. They conducted wide-ranging and frequent operations resulting in many dispersals and summary mass killings. Governor Fitzroy noted in
2170-716: The Queensland Labour Party was read out under the well known Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine following the Great Shearers' Strike. The State Library of Queensland now holds the manifesto, in 2008 the historic document was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Australian Register and in 2009, the document was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. The Australian Workers Heritage Centre opened in Barcaldine in 1991 as
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2240-539: The Queensland shearers' strike of 1891. Frederick Walker (native police commandant) Frederick Walker (14 April 1820 – 19 November 1866) was a British public servant of the Colony of New South Wales , property manager, Commandant of the Native Police, squatter and explorer, today best known as the first Commandant of the Native Police Force that operated in the colonies of New South Wales and Queensland . He
2310-581: The area viewed the "native blacks" as aliens in their own land, legally voiding them of any rights and refusing to prosecute white people who had murdered them. Walker also wrote about the Juandah massacre, where many innocent Aboriginals were shot and killed by vigilantes in the Juandah courthouse. Around this time, Walker was also commissioned by a Sydney pastoral company to locate a suitably large area of land to graze 100,000 head of sheep. Walker located this area on
2380-399: The assistance of lay teacher Catherine Lobie. The original building had two storeys with the sisters living upstairs and the classrooms downstairs. In 1906 a new school building was erected to accommodate the school's 195 students. The current school building opened on 21 October 1962. In August 1909, a devastating fire destroyed buildings in Oak Street, including a general store (J. Dias),
2450-524: The discharged members of the Native Police and were financed by local squatters unhappy with the government run force. George Serocold described the situation as a Border War and even called for the importation of the Cape Mounted Rifles from Africa to give a lesson to "these savages as will enable us to gain our moral ascendency, let them be made to feel the miseries of war". The Queensland Government eventually determined that Walker's private militia
2520-892: The first May Day marches in the world took place during the strike on 1 May 1891 in Barcaldine. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that of the 1,340 men that took part, 618 were mounted on horses. Banners carried included those of the Australian Labor Federation, the Shearers' and Carriers' Unions, and one inscribed 'Young Australia'. The leaders wore blue sashes and the Eureka Flag was carried. The Labor Bulletin reported that cheers were given for "the Union", "the Eight-hour day ", "the Strike Committee" and "the boys in gaol". It reported
2590-474: The first overlanding pastoralists entered the Port Curtis area, the 1st Division of Native Police under Commandant Walker was sent into the region to "have a month's sharp shooting." The size of the Native Police expanded further in 1854 to 10 Divisions and as a consequence their violent methods were becoming increasingly noticeable. Supporters of the force had to defend charges of "wanton cruelty" perpetrated by
2660-526: The force by justifying the need of "cutting a lane to the culprit through the bodies of his defenders". Further official complaints to the government in Sydney of massacres of peaceful "station blacks" by the Native Police were brushed off in parliament by the Attorney-General as unfounded or exaggerated. Embarrassing information like these reports and further complaints from squatters, such as William Forster , who felt they didn't get enough protection from
2730-587: The force, as well as certain financial irregularities, pushed the NSW Government into organising an inquiry into the Native Police. Commandant Walker was suspended from duty in September and the inquiry, to be held in Brisbane , was set for December. The inquiry was closed to the public and the report was kept secret for two years and even then only fragments of information were released. It revealed that Walker arrived at
2800-578: The full version is found in the correspondence of the Gulf of Carpentaria exploration expedition of Commander Norman. On 25 August 1861, Walker set out from Rockhampton accompanied by ex-Native Police troopers Jingle, Rodney, Patrick, Coreen Jemmy and Jemmy Cargara. These aboriginal men had served Walker for many years and were vital in ascertaining the terrain and communicating with the local indigenous people. Walker acknowledged their importance by naming mountains and rivers after them. However, this mutual respect
2870-628: The group, having reformed, achieved the rendezvous point with Captain Norman. They had failed to locate Burke and Wills and their party. In 1866, Walker was employed by the Superintendent of Electric Telegraph to survey a 500-mile route from Bowen to Burketown in a bid to compete against South Australia for the end of the Trans-Oceanic link from Europe. Although the South Australian project won
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2940-628: The ill-fated expedition. There are two memorial plaques to Frederick Walker in Hughenden commemorating his actions in attempting to find the Burke and Wills expedition party. The original letter from Frederick Walker to the Colonial Secretary regarding an attack of the Native Police on "Friendly Blacks" at a station in Central Queensland, killing and wounding several of them. was ranked No. 45 in
3010-432: The inquiry completely drunk and surrounded by nine of his black troopers. The troopers were denied entry, and after an attempt to continue with proceedings, the inebriation of Walker forced an adjournment to the inquiry which was later quickly and conveniently abandoned altogether. An attempt by 2nd Lieut. Irving to confront Walker, resulted in the ex-Commandant drawing a sword against him. Eventually, Walker wandered off and
3080-440: The larger towns: Alpha , Aramac , Barcaldine, Jericho and Muttaburra . Barcaldine was expanded to incorporate Barcaldine Downs , Evora , Grant (all except for the eastern corner), Home Creek , Ingberry (southern part), Moombria , Narbethong (all except for the north-eastern corner), Patrick , Saltern Creek , and Tara Station . In the 2021 census , Barcaldine had a population of 1,540 people. Barcaldine played
3150-460: The local aboriginals onto their runs so that they could be easily observed and controlled. This was done and Walker's measure of success was the resulting increase in land values. These first actions of the Native Police reduced to great effect Aboriginal attacks and resistance against squatters in the Macintyre and Condamine regions. Walker was successful in ending the attacks of the Bigambul people in
3220-458: The local aboriginals resulting in "some lives lost". They were then deployed to the Condamine River where the "Fitzroy Downs blacks" were routed and another group were "compelled to fly" from the area. Walker found most of the squatters and magistrates in the region thought the Native Police were there to shoot down the natives so they wouldn't have to. Walker encouraged the squatters to admit
3290-510: The march: In the procession every civilised country was represented doing duty for the Russian, Swede, French, Dane etc., who are germane to him in other climes, showing that Labor's cause is one the world over, foreshadowing the time when the swords shall be turned into ploughshares and Liberty, Peace and Friendship will knit together the nations of the earth. On the 9 September 1892 the Manifesto of
3360-532: The properties of Bowen Downs and catchments of Cornish Creek and Alice River . The first European to enter the area was Frederick Walker , the former commandant of the Native Police , who in 1861 led an expedition through what is now Barcaldine searching for the explorers Burke and Wills . The town takes its name from a sheep station called Barcaldine Downs , which was established in 1863 by Donald Charles Cameron, whose family property in Ayrshire, Scotland,
3430-483: The race and Darwin became the terminus, Walker did manage to lead an expedition to survey a route for the Burketown line. His expedition consisted of himself as leader, H.E.Young, Mr. Perrier, Mr. Ewan, Mr. Merryweather and four Aboriginals who went by the names of Paul, Alfred, Charley and Tommy. On making their way to the starting point of Bowen, Walker had a severe fall from a horse and was subsequently unwell for most of
3500-529: The remainder of his journey. He arrived in Burketown with his party at the height of the Gulf Fever – a typhoid which affected the Gulf after the arrival in Burketown of a vessel on which all the crew except the Captain died. To compound matters, Walker's camp just outside the settlement was described by H.E.Young as the "worst camp that I had ever seen", with no shade and poor water. Walker had chronic diarrhoea while he
3570-478: The time which encouraged the forcible removal or elimination of Aboriginals from desirable frontier grazing lands. As a result, Walker and the other squatters who associated with him made frequent official complaints against the actions of magistrates and Native Police in the area. Walker wrote letters to the Attorney-General complaining of the actions of Lieutenant Patrick of the Native Police killing peaceable Aboriginals on his run. He also described how magistrates in
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#17328376585553640-488: The town had been surveyed. The Central Western railway line to Barcaldine opened on 8 November 1886. Barcaldine Post Office opened on 13 November 1886. The artesian water at Barcaldine is full of minerals. A bore had been constructed in 1887, but was unsuitable for the water needs of the steam locomotives and so the water was let run to waste. By 1891, a local doctor observed that water contained soda and potash which he believed would have health benefits. In 1907,
3710-464: The tracks of this man as the track of a white man was different from that of an Aborigine. However, this could be explained as some of the women followed Gilburri and covered his tracks. A large contingent of Native Police troopers were used in an invasion of Fraser Island . Walker with Lieutenant Richard Purvis Marshall and Sergeant Doolan and three divisions of troopers, together with local landholders set out from Maryborough . The force landed on
3780-578: The traditional tribal lands of the Iningai . Iningai (also known as Yiningay, Muttaburra, Tateburra, Yinangay, Yinangi) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Iningai people. The Iningai language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Region and Barcaldine Region , particularly the towns of Longreach , Barcaldine, Muttaburra and Aramac as well as
3850-764: The tribe's resistance. Walker appears to have obtained his Aboriginal name of Morum Billak or Muroo Billi while living in the Murray River area. There is conjecture as to the actual meaning of the name but it has been stipulated to mean either Long Legs or Big Nose. The Native Police Force that Walker was to command was formed in August 1848 in the Deniliquin area on the Edward River and commenced training later that year. Fourteen 15- to 25-year-old Aboriginal troopers were picked from four different Murrumbidgee tribes, by all accounts
3920-399: The west coast of the island where the divisions split up to scour the region. Marshall's section shot a number of Badtjala and captured several. Bad weather hampered operations and Commandant Walker subsequently allowed his division to track down other groups of Badtjala without him. This group chased the local Aboriginals across to the east coast where they mustered them into the ocean. When
3990-785: Was born in Hampshire, England in 1820. His father, John Walker, an officer in the British Army, lived until 1837 and was a landholder at Purbrook Park. His mother, the French-born Maria Teresa Henrietta Swinburne, was a daughter of Henry Swinburne , and granddaughter to Sir John Swinburne 3rd Baronet . Frederick's sister, Harriet Walker, was married to Reginald Yorke, a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy. Two other siblings of Frederick were apparently handicapped. It has been claimed that Robert George Walker, who also became
4060-478: Was appointed commandant of this force by the NSW government in 1848 and was dismissed in 1854. During this time period the Native Police were active from the Murrumbidgee/Murray River areas through the Darling River districts and into what is now the far North Coast of NSW and southern and central Queensland. Despite this large area, most operations under Walker's command occurred on the northern side of
4130-515: Was appointed to the position of Commandant of the Corps of Native Police having emigrated from Australia from England. The Corps commenced with fourteen troopers recruited from four different New South Wales tribes. In 1850 Walker had three units and two lieutenants in the corps and by 1852 he increased the Corps with 48 additional Aboriginal troopers who were drilled and trained in the use of carbines, swords, saddles and bridles. On 12 October 1854 Walker
4200-458: Was at this camp. The party commenced their return journey but at Floraville, Walker became too weak to continue and after several days he died on 19 November 1866. The entry in H.E.Young's journal recorded Walker's passing: "as soon as the horses were brought up and a couple saddled, Perrier and Ewan were starting for the doctor of the Leichhardt search expedition which was camped about six miles off. But he died before they mounted. He died at noon and
4270-525: Was buried on the evening of the same day." The administration of Walker's will was completed in London on 13 April 1867. His entire effects of £1160 14 s 11 d were left to his sister Harriet Yorke. Walkers Creek, located near Marathon Station in far north Queensland is named after Frederick Walker. Frederick Walker's grave is located 71 kilometres (44 mi) south of the township on Floraville Station, in far north Queensland. The inscription reads: On August 17 1848 Frederick Walker, aged 28,
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#17328376585554340-401: Was called upon by frontier squatter Edmund Morey to punish the local Tati Tati people for interfering with the formation of his Euston pastoral station on the Murray River . Walker set out with two armed Aboriginals named Robin Hood and Marengo from the neighbouring Edward River tribe. At Lake Benanee, with the aid of other squatters they shot dead a number of Tati Tati in a skirmish that ended
4410-438: Was dismissed from the service for impropriety of conduct due to his heavy drinking. After his dismissal he continued to live on the frontier and briefly formed an illegal force of ten ex-troopers from the Native Police Corps to protect settlers in the Upper Dawson region. In August 1861 fears had grown for the safety of the Burke and Wills expedition and Walker was sent at the insistence of the Royal Society of Victoria to search for
4480-464: Was erected in Maple Street. The foundation stone for the current brick church was laid on 1 July 1961 by Reverend Joseph Tainton , President of the Queensland Methodist Conference, with the former wooden church beside it becoming the church hall. In 1977 following the amalgamation that created the Uniting Church in Australia , the Barcaldine Methodist Church became the Barcaldine Uniting Church. Barcaldine State School opened on 4 July 1887. In 1892,
4550-427: Was illegal and ordered its dissolution in 1859. William Wiseman, the Commissioner for Crown Lands in the region, was sent to the Dawson River to enact the order. He found that Walker's troops were conveniently already dissolved and working on Andrew Scott's Hornet Bank and Pollet Cardew's Eurombah stations as shepherds earning £35 per annum. Frederick Walker was also employed as overseer and ex-Native Police officer Ross
4620-519: Was made a corporal in the paramilitary Border Police unit based in the Murrumbidgee District . In 1845, Walker was appointed as Clerk of Petty Sessions in Tumut and in April 1847 he attained the same position at Wagga Wagga . On 18 August 1848 he was appointed "Magistrate of the Territories and its Dependencies" and Commandant of newly established Native Police Force on the recommendation of his former employers William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872) and Augustus Morris (1820?–1895), both members of
4690-414: Was named after Barcaldine, Argyll , Scotland. Cameron had been a sugar plantation owner and slaveholder in Berbice , British Guiana . The local Aboriginal people were not allowed onto Barcaldine Downs and blackbirded South Sea Islander labour was utilised in the 1860s and 1870s. The first town lots were sold in 1885 and within a year several buildings were under construction. By the end of 1886
4760-440: Was not extended to some aboriginal groups met with along the way. On 30 October near the Stawell River, the party met with a group of locals who they deemed hostile. Walker writes that 'It was now for us to be doing...Now was shown the benefit of Terry's breech loaders, for such a continued steady fire was kept up.' Out of around 30 aboriginals armed with spears, 12 were killed and 'few if any escaped unwounded.' On 1 December near
4830-408: Was subsequently dismissed from the Native Police. He was later apprehended at Bromelton , charged with the embezzlement of £100 and sent to Sydney. By 1857, Walker was back on the northern frontier of European colonisation in Australia, employed on Serocold and Mackenzie's Cockatoo station. Here he formulated plans with squatter George Serocold to examine land for occupation in the upper reaches of
4900-668: Was superintendent. In September 1859, Walker officially became a pastoral squatter, taking up the Meteor Creek, Clematis, Carnarvon Creek and Consuelo runs in conjunction with established squatters Serocold, Wiggins and Mackenzie. He expanded his property interests in 1860 by establishing the Planet Downs station on the Comet River with Daniel Cameron, and helped Rolleston and the Dutton brothers take up their runs nearby. Walker continued his method of pacification of local Aboriginals by allowing those who submitted to European colonisation to remain on their land as indentured labour. This strategy went against official Queensland Government policy at
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