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Definition of station black in English: station black(also station boy) noun Australian historical An Aborigine employed on a sheep or cattle station. for years afterwards, station blacks remained anxious about their physical security Example sentencesExamples - In the south-west of Queensland station blacks arranged to have their dances and ceremonies coincide with local race-meetings.
- One young station black, accused of killing a friendly white, wept bitterly that the "devil devil" had got into him.
- Pastoralists were less willing to maintain and support 'station blacks', who in turn found it more difficult to survive on 'bush tucker'.
- The element of bluff, guile and counter-guile and hide and seek is strong on both sides, with the word getting out to the hunted group via a station black.
- 'Station blacks' who move between stations now act as messengers of danger to the squatters.
- Some weeks later the police came back shooting still more natives whether guilty or not - we lost twelve more of our station blacks.
- Back in '47 government made this place and shifted plenty of station blacks out ere.
- In her reminiscences, Margaret Young told of her husband burying 'twelve more of our station blacks' following a Native Mounted Police visit to Umbercollie.
- Now a station black, working cattle on a vast ranch, Jacky still had spells when civilization seemed just too complicated.
- One of the worst massacres of 'station blacks' was to take place nearby just three years later.
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