Frontier Conflict & the Native Mounted Police in Queensland Database Launch
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Featuring a talk by Dr Fiona Foley, a renowned Badtjala artist from Fraser Island who has created numerous artworks dealing with frontier conflict, researchers will launch a public online database on frontier conflict and Native Mounted Police in Queensland that brings together results from four years of research. The database contains more than 11,000 documents about more than 176 NMP camps, 12,000 artefacts, 400 NMP officers, 850 troopers and 1800 frontier conflict events across the State through the nineteenth century.