Myall Creek Massacre remembered
Hundreds of people gathered near Delungra on Saturday to commemorate the Myall Creek Massacre in which 28 Aboriginal people were slaughtered by white stockmen in 1838.
This year's guest speaker was Dr Anne Pattel Gray, an Aboriginal theologian and academic.
Co-chair of the Myall Creek Memorial Committee, the Reverend Dr John Brown, says it is important to remember lives were lost, but also that justice was served upon the perpertrators.
He says it marks one of the first steps towards reconciliation.
"In the end seven of them were executed for murdering Aboriginal people," he said.
"That was the first time European people had been brought to trial and executed for the murder of Aboriginal people, so it was a significant event in the development of the law in Australia."
Dr Brown says the memorial was erected, 15km south of Delungra on the Bingara Road, about 11 years ago to remember the lives lost.
"Aboriginal and other Australians gather there to commit themselves to telling the truth about our history as a means of developing reconciliation," he said.
"Each year is a re-commitment to the work of reconciliation and the establishment of more just relations between our people."