Effectively , the act created a situation where settler solidarity and the law of evidence ensured that the murder and massacre of Aboriginal Australians by European colonisers could not be tried solely on the evidence of Aboriginal witnesses . Possibly in response to the , Avenue Range Station massacre , where three Tanganekald women , two teenage girls , three infants , and an " old man blind and infirm " were murdered by Australian mass murderer and pastoralist James Brown , the Aboriginal Witnesses Act of 1848 was amended in July 1849 to allow a person to be convicted on the sole testimony of an Aboriginal person , though this rarely occurred
Avenue Range Station massacre
Avenue Range Station massacre
Aboriginal Witnesses Act