We headed for Corella Dam, around sixty kilometres from Cloncurry, for our first Free Camp of our trip. On the way I wanted to stop off at the Burke and Wills Monument, to pay my respects to these heroes from early Australian exploration. To my dismay, the monument had been vandalised and spraypainted with the words, Always Was, Always Will Be, which is clearly a reference to aboriginals dispossessed of their lands. I drove on a little further and stopped to look at a monument to the aboriginal warriors who were massacred for opposing the white settlers who were taking their lands by force. I began to understand that the white colonial history I had learned in Primary School may not have been balanced. We managed to score a caravan site at Corella Dam right next
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