<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you again Elaine for stating this. I remember being taken to the site when I visited Oombulgurri in 1976. <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">O God, hear our prayer, is all I can say. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 8 Mar 2019, at 4:30 pm, the telfords via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Yes all those of us who lived and worked with the Oombulgurri community in the 1970's knew of the massacre<div class=""> and could take you to the site which was not above the river but on a ridge called the 'jump up', overlooking the community </div><div class="">where we understand some were pushed over to their deaths.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you say, very sad and hard to come to terms with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John & Elaine</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:24 PM Richard and Maria Maguire via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We were painfully moved to see this article on Oombulgurri's history <br class="">
today. This sort of massacre was all to common in Australia in the <br class="">
past, but we did not know that Oombulgurri had also been affected. I'm <br class="">
not even sure that our colleagues who were there in the 70's knew about <br class="">
it, at least no one ever mentioned it to us.<br class="">
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All the more to everyone's credit for how much people there were able to <br class="">
accomplish.<br class="">
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