It is said that the aboriginals continue in some force in the huge territory called Queensland.
The early whites were not used to savages.

They could not understand the primary law of savage life: that if a man do you a wrong, his whole tribe is responsible--each individual of it--and you may take your change out of any individual of it, without bothering to seek out the guilty one.
When a white killed an aboriginal, the tribe applied the ancient law, and killed the first white they came across.

To the whites this was a monstrous thing.

Extermination seemed to be the proper medicine for such creatures as this.

They did not kill all the blacks, but they promptly killed enough of them to make their own persons safe.