Harden Murrumburrah History

Harden Murrumburrah: Aboriginal heritage | Cinema / Picture Theatres | Council Chambers | Fossil animals | Flying into Harden 1914 | Historic Buildings | Hotels, Pubs & Inns | McMahon's Reef Goldfield | Platypus | Postal Services | Sheep | Searching, searching ...... Murrimboola Creek, Murrumburrah When a non-Indigenous person in Australia goes looking for local evidence of First Nations / Aboriginal culture and history in any given locale, it is not easy to find. Why? Because, in 1788 the British invaded Australia and a substantial amount of cultural genocide subsequently took place, decimating the local population and destroying much of its culture. That shameful act, carried out over the years since and still in play, has never been fully recognised or addressed. The story below is one small effort on the part of one of those whitefellas to uncover some of that history and recognise that Australia is older than Captain Cook. Searching Upon arrival in Murru