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WA Governor to apologise for Pinjarra massacre nearly 200 years on

WA Governor Chris Dawson will today apologise for his predecessor James Stirling’s actions almost 200 years ago after he led the massacre of between 15 and 80 Bindjareb Noongar people in Pinjarra.

The massacre occurred on the banks of the Murray River in 1834.

A plaque in the Battle of Pinjarra Memorial Park. Credit: ABC

Dawson, who is also the state’s former Police Commissioner, retraced Stirling’s steps and stopped at a spot near Ravenswood where the former governor camped the night before the killings took place.

Historical diaries from the time showed Stirling told the Colonial Office in London that the slaughtered tribe had threatened to “des

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