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The first national project to record mass killings on the Australian frontier has found that more than half of all massacres of Aboriginal people were carried out by police or government forces, or settlers acting with tacit approval of the state.Australia's frontier conflict was widespread. Reprisals for killing a colonist was the most common reason for massacres.A significant number of massacres took place to “teach the natives a lesson” after the theft of livestock – evidence of the conflict