ARTWORK STORY
Aboriginal people stand nearby as the Redcoat pours poison (arsenic) into their precious waterhole or billabong. This painting depicts the final solution to do away with the Aborigine so the squatters could take over the land easily. A sign was probably put up to warn other white men but as Aboriginal people as well as wildlife could not read this was an effective plan to exterminate the Aboriginal population.
ARTWORK STORY
Aboriginal people stand nearby as the Redcoat pours poison (arsenic) into their precious waterhole or billabong. This painting depicts the final solution to do away with the Aborigine so the squatters could take over the land easily. A sign was probably put up to warn other white men but as Aboriginal people as well as wildlife could not read this was an effective plan to exterminate the Aboriginal population.
