The sky is blue and the wind from the Indian Ocean blows over the sea front, balmy and fresh. Life is so sweet in this part of western Australia today.
But there is a large hole in the ground there. At least thirty feet down and years earlier it served a most diabolic purpose; human suffering of the most dastardly nature was permitted to be practised here. Thousands of human beings were rounded like cattle and thrown into this pit and imprisoned there like animals to await transfer by sea to perish in a desert island off shore.
White settlers to the newly founded country were in need of land to plant crops and rear livestock. They banded in armed groups, roamed the surrounding countryside and rounded all the aborigines they found there, dragged them to this pit. The land was then freed from its undesirable inhabitants and made available for use and exploitation of its mineral resources.
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