Dundalli

1855 sketch of Dundalli by Silvester Diggles

Dundalli (c. 1820 – 5 January 1855) was an Aboriginal lawman who figured prominently in accounts of conflict between British settlers and indigenous aboriginal peoples in the area of Brisbane in South East Queensland. Traditionally described as a murderer, savage and terrorist, he is now thought variously to have been a guerrilla leader or to have coordinated a decade-long resistance to British colonization the area. He was hanged publicly in Brisbane in 1855 by order of the Sheriff of New South Wales.[1]