Aboriginal History Casino Nsw
NSW Aboriginal Trackers. This website explores the history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW from 1862 when the current NSW Police Force was established through. Originally the main station for Casino on the line that was planned to link Brisbane to Sydney through Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Lismore, Tenterfield and then through the New England, a plan that was never realised once the Sydney-Brisbane standard gauge line was built in 1930.
Some of the first major stirrings of change came in the 1960s. There was a small group of Aboriginal activists in Redfern, influenced by the Black Power movement in the US. They read people like Huey Newtown, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver. In America, the Black Panthers confronted the American police.
Aboriginal Community The traditional custodians of the land of the Casino area, or Djanangmum as it is known to Aboriginal people, are Galibal. The area known today as the Northern Rivers was occupied by the Bundjalung-speaking peoples, made up of an estimated 20 different language groups. This index includes the names of approximately 80 Aboriginal people. It is not a complete list of Aboriginal people living on reserves in NSW in the period of 1875-1904.
In Inner Sydney, police were enforcing a curfew at night that solely targeted at Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people walking the streets in Redfern, Newtown, Alexandria and Chippendale were subject to arbitrary, violent arrest and detention by police.
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At night, when Aboriginal people met at local hotels in Redfern, police often blocked the nearby streets with police paddy wagons before closing time. They would move into the hotels and force Aboriginal customers out onto the streets. Police regularly arrested Aboriginal people indiscriminately and held them overnight in the cells. They were often unfairly charged with offences like drunkenness, offensive behaviour and offensive language.
There were many complaints by Aboriginal people of being assaulted in the cells. At this time, there wasn’t any access to effective legal representation. Most Aboriginal people appeared unrepresented in court and simply pleaded guilty.
A train arrives at Casino in 1903
Hauled by a z14 class locomotive.
The ghost station
Haunted and abandoned, Old Casino Station photographed using time exposure photography in 1989.
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Bob Ashton, former Station Master back in the Station Master's chair.
Big trains meet little trains
Photo of the last steam train passing our little train at Old Casino in 1995.
Books, photos and more
Our bookshop specialises in items relating to the local railways and local history.
Australian Aboriginal
Museum displays
Canadian Aboriginal History
Is this fun or what? People of all ages have great fun discovering the past.