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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 3, 2018

James Brown

The Avenue Range Station massacre was the murder of at least nine Aboriginal Tanganekald people, who were shot by white settlers on the Avenue Range pastoral station in the southeast of the colony of South Australia around September 1848, during the Australian frontier wars. Those confirmed to have been killed were a blind old man, three women, two teenage girls, and three female children, including a baby. The sheep farmer James Brown (pictured) and his overseer, Eastwood, were suspected of committing the murders, and Brown was charged with the murder of "unknown aboriginal natives" on 1 March 1849. His motive was apparently retaliation for the theft of his sheep by Aboriginal people. Legal hurdles combined with settler solidarity ensured the case did not go to trial. (Full article...)