Qualla: Frank Hann https://qualla.com/frank-hann en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/v/1/m/frank-hann-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Frank Hann https://qualla.com/frank-hann Frank Hann: Introduction https://qualla.com/frank-hann/ Photo credit Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 3.0. When an Aboriginal man named Joe Flick shot Frank Hann in the chest at close range in 1889, Hann had just returned from a punitive expedition — what the colonial records called "hunting the blacks." The bullet didn't kill him. Flick, cornered by police the following morning, was not so fortunate. The incident encapsulates everything difficult about Frank Hann: the violence he participated in, and the violence that came back to find him in his own home.

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]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:05:37 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/v/1/m/frank-hann-wp/qv1m-frank-hann-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Frank Hann: From Wiltshire to the Far North https://qualla.com/frank-hann/ Photo credit Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0. Frank Hugh Hann was born in Wiltshire, England on 19 October 1846, the younger brother of explorer William Hann. The family emigrated to the Western Port area of Victoria in 1851, then moved north to the Burdekin River district of Queensland in 1862. When both parents died in 186...

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]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:05:37 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/v/1/m/frank-hann-wp/qv1m-frank-hann-from-wiltshire-to-the-far-north.mp3 0:06 2 full Frank Hann: Discovery and Violence in the Same Hands https://qualla.com/frank-hann/ Photo credit Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1881, Hann acted as guide for a survey of a proposed transcontinental railway through northern Queensland. In the course of that work he identified silver and lead deposits near Lawn Hill — finds that would lie dormant for a century before becoming the Century Mine. Two years ...

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]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:05:37 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/v/1/m/frank-hann-wp/qv1m-frank-hann-discovery-and-violence-in-the-same-hands.mp3 0:06 3 full Frank Hann: Talbot https://qualla.com/frank-hann/ Photo credit Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0. Amid this history, one figure stands apart. Hann maintained a long association with an Aboriginal man named Talbot, from Normanton. Daisy Bates, who knew Hann well, recalled years later: "Talbot was as well educated as Frank Hann, and stayed with him, on terms of equality, at all...

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]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:05:37 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/v/1/m/frank-hann-wp/qv1m-frank-hann-talbot.mp3 0:06 4 full Frank Hann: The Western Australia Years and a Complicated Legacy https://qualla.com/frank-hann/ Photo credit Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hann eventually moved to Western Australia, where he continued to explore and work pastoral country across the Kimberley region. In 1918 he was injured in an accident that left him on crutches, and he retired to Perth, where he died on 23 August 1921. He was buried at Karrakatta ...

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