Early Editorial Stance and Myall Creek

On 26 December 1836, the Sydney Herald's front page stated: "If nothing but extermination will do, they will exterminate the savages as they would wild beasts." The paper's editorial stance at times urged squatters across Australia to emulate the mass killing of Native Americans. After the Myall Creek massacre, in which at least twenty-eight unarmed Wirraayaraay men, women and children were murdered by white stockmen, the paper published a long letter from a squatter defending the killings; neither the massacre nor the letter is dated in the supplied passages.