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Native Police Queensland has 32 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 7 references, with 2 live disagreements.

32 facts·30 predicates·7 sources·2 in dispute

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  • Mrs Watson[3]sourceall time · Trove Trove Cooktown All Native Police Maryborough Saturday 5 November 1881 267148528 Queensland Gympie October 30
  • Watson Party[3]sourceall time · Trove Trove Cooktown All Native Police Maryborough Saturday 5 November 1881 267148528 Queensland Gympie October 30

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  • Colonial Institution[3]sourceall time · Trove Trove Cooktown All Native Police Maryborough Saturday 5 November 1881 267148528 Queensland Gympie October 30

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Role Until1960s Unarmed TroopersroleUntil1960sUnarmedTroopers

  • null[5]all time · Downloaded Arch 765d467b56da

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  • Border Warfare[1]all time · Jonathan Richards Question of Necessity Isley Port Douglas Children

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  • defenders of colonisation[1]all time · Jonathan Richards Question of Necessity Isley Port Douglas Children

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  • 1859[1]all time · Jonathan Richards Question of Necessity Isley Port Douglas Children

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Inbound mentions (10)

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Other facts (18)

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18 facts
PredicateValueRef
Not Uniquenull[1]
Offered Niche forSadist[1]
Part ofColonial Settler Society Queensland[1]
Purpose toSuppress Indigenous Resistance to Colonisation[1]
Reputed Asmost violent police force on Australian frontier[1]
Requires Understanding ofColonial Military Practices[1]
Research Hypothesis Rolecentral role in dispossession and punitive treatment of Indigenous people[1]
Retained byQueensland Government[1]
Standard Form ofColonial Law Enforcement[1]
Symbol ofNative Policy Invasion Dispossession[1]
Active in Decades1870s-1880s[2]
Attacked Fellow Aboriginalstrue[2]
Supplementary toWhite Police Queensland[2]
Used forTracking Abilities[2]
History Not Told Until Recentlyrecently[4]
Contributes toComplete History of Policing English Speaking World[1]
ResembledKaffir Corps Ceylon[1]
TypeOrganisation[6]

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central role in dispossession and punitive treatment of Indigenous people
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References (7)

7 references
  1. customctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/jonathan-richards-question-of-necessity-isley-port-douglas-children
  2. customctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/metadata-reingest/03-trove-nla-gov-au-newspaper-article-42272412-8e552b034d26
  3. customctx:research/blucher-uhr/trove--trove-cooktown-all--native-police-maryborough--saturday 5 november 1881--267148528--queensland-gympie-october-30
  4. customctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archives-2026-05-05-2026-05-06-batch-db3b611644d7
  5. customctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-arch-765d467b56da
  6. customctx:genealogy/frontier-massacres/20111
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      # Frontier conflict event: Attack on Aboriginal people - 'King Billy', Kitty and two others, Irvinebank (18 October 1884) Source dataset: University of Newcastle, "Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia 1788-1930" (c21ch.newcastle.edu.au
  7. customctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2642-eid-69747

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