On the 17th of April 1816, a British Naval officer and his soldiers open-fired on a camp of First Nations people and drove them off a cliff in Appin. This was coordinated murder, ordered by Governor Macquarie with the express purpose to “rid the land of troublesome blacks.’ 

We, the Dharawal and Gundungurra family groups, and all First Nation family groups, are the descendants of those who were slaughtered at the Appin Massacre. 

We are calling on the NSW government to protect the Appin massacre site from future development. This area should never be built on. It’s a place of trauma, great sorrow and death. Development on this land will yet again trigger that trauma for our communities.

We strongly reject the proposal and investigation by the department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW as well as by any other government or non-government organisations into future development opportunities and impacts. 

Please sign and share our petition to tell the government to keep Appin massacre site free from any development, including Walker’s housing development application.