HOSPITAL CREEK MEMORIAL

Seventeen kilometres north of Brewarrina on the Goodooga Road, on the left hand side of the road, just a few metres before the Hospital Creek Bridge, lies a small memorial with huge significance. It’s dedicated to the men, women and children who were killed in one of the biggest mass slaughters of Aboriginal people in New South Wales.

Accounts of that tragic day in 1859 vary, but it is believed more than 300 First Nations people were slaughtered by settlers near Hospital Creek. 

In 1995, the Aboriginal Land Council of Brewarrina erected a series of stone monuments on the historic site to commemorate those that were killed.