Barry Healy (progressive writer) reviewing “Every Mother’s Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882–1905” by Chris Owen (2018): “Chris Owen has produced an exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia pastoralists and the police who served their interests in the Kimberley region. It shows that, at best, they considered Aboriginal people as convenient slave labour and at worst pests who were to be exterminated… if Aboriginal people speared cattle for food — which they did increasingly as native fauna were displaced — the pastoralists responded with violent fury. Flour laced with arsenic was given as a “gift” and the bodies burned afterwards to hide the evidence.Not only did the station owners murder the local peoples whose land they had stolen, they demanded the police do the same… Some station owners branded their workers in the same way as their cattle. If workers left a station, the owners expected the police to force them back to work. When stations were sold, Aboriginal slaves were listed along with cattle and fences as part of the establishment… In 1894, a guerrilla resistance flared up led by Jandamarra, a Bunuba warrior. Jandamarra had been employed as a “native assistant”, but became alarmed when he was forced to help arrest his own relatives. However, he acquired an understanding of the police methods and was a brilliant rifle shot. Where other Aboriginal warriors only used spears, Jandamarra used stolen rifles and manufactured his own bullets. He defied all police efforts to capture him for three years. However, the authorities took vengeance on any other Aboriginal people they could find. The 1890s are still known as “the killing times” in Aboriginal oral history” (Barry Healy, “Exhaustive history of colonial Western Australia’s extreme anti-Aboriginal crimes”, Green Left Weekly, 18 January 2018: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/exhaustive-history-colonial-western-australia-extreme-anti-aboriginal-crimes ).