Image 15: Excerpt from 'Outrages by the Blacks', Portland Mercury and Normanby Advertiser, 31 August 1842.

The article 'Outrages by the Blacks', which appeared in a Portland newspaper in 1842, reports on the killing of stock and shepherds by Aboriginal people in the Western District. The article sums up the view of many squatters in this and other areas of Port Phillip who believed they had a right to hold onto the land they had taken away from the traditional owners. Excerpt from 'Outrages by the Blacks' in Portland Mercury and Normanby Advertiser, 31 August 1842. La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.