Mornington Island Book : The McKenzie Massacre on Bentinck Island told by Roma Kelly

In 1911 a man named McKenzie obtaineda government lease which, according to Queensland law, gave him titlehold over all of Sweers Island and a large portion of Bentinck Island. In the 1980s Roma Kelly told linguist Nicholas Evans about the brutal massacre led by McKenzie in 1918 at Rukuthi, for which he was never punished.