Qualla: Kajabbi https://qualla.com/kajabbi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kajabbi https://qualla.com/kajabbi Kajabbi: Introduction https://qualla.com/kajabbi/ A single pub and a scatter of houses sit on the banks of the Leichhardt River, 1,805 kilometres from Brisbane and a long way from anywhere. A travel writer once dismissed Kajabbi as "no more than a pub and a couple of houses," and on the map he is not wrong. But the quiet here is not the quiet of a place where nothing happened. Twenty kilometres to the south-west rises Battle Mountain, and the name is exact. This is the country of the Kalkadoon, the Kalkatungu people, who defended it with a ferocity that broke the confidence of the men sent to take it.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/7/w/kajabbi-wp/rh7w-kajabbi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kajabbi: The Defenders of the Stone Country https://qualla.com/kajabbi/ The Kalkadoon held the rugged ranges of north-west Queensland, a hard land of spinifex and broken rock that they knew intimately and that suited their way of fighting. As pastoralists pushed cattle onto their hunting grounds through the late 1870s and early 1880s, the Kalkadoon r...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/7/w/kajabbi-wp/rh7w-kajabbi-the-defenders-of-the-stone-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Kajabbi: September 1884 https://qualla.com/kajabbi/ After a Kalkadoon party killed the pastoralist James Powell, the Queensland government sent Sub-Inspector Frederic Urquhart and the Native Mounted Police to end the resistance. In late September 1884, the Kalkadoon gathered on the high rocky ground now called Battle Mountain. Est...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/7/w/kajabbi-wp/rh7w-kajabbi-september-1884.mp3 0:06 3 full Kajabbi: Honest Words for What Happened https://qualla.com/kajabbi/ Urquhart telegraphed Brisbane that a "skirmish" had broken "the blacks' power for good." The word was a lie of scale. This was one of the largest frontier battles in Australian history, and historians now name it for what it was: a massacre, followed by nine more weeks of patrols...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/h/7/w/kajabbi-wp/rh7w-kajabbi-honest-words-for-what-happened.mp3 0:06 4 full Kajabbi: The Monument and the Living Tribe https://qualla.com/kajabbi/ In 1984, on the centenary of the battle, an obelisk was raised near Kajabbi, the first monument in Queensland and reportedly the first in Australia to acknowledge the Frontier Wars. It was dedicated by Charles Perkins and the Kalkadoon Elder George Thorpe. Its inscription does no...

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