As reprisal for reportedly spearing and killing four European settlers,[3] the Woolwonga were believed to have been exterminated in a series of massacres, often associated with the town of Burrundie, which was the regional centre for the goldfields at the time.

Documents uncovered in the 2010s however indicate that the daughter of a Woolwonga woman and a white settler had survived and was registered in the 1899 census, leading her descendants to assert native title over Burrundie.

[7] Burrundie's significance waned in the early 20th the century, evidenced by the closure of the police station in 1906 (was briefly reopened before again closing in 1908),[8] abolition of the local court in 1908[9] and the relocation of the prefabricated Mining Warden's Office building to Pine Creek in 1913.

[11] In September 2014, Woolwonga descendents met at the former Burrundie railway siding for a ceremony to affirm their cultural identity and commemorate the 130th anniversary of a raid by white settlers and police that killed 30 aboriginal men and an unknown number of women and children.

During the ceremony, a plaque was unveiled by Senator Nigel Scullion, Minister for Indigenous Affairs commemorating the massacre and describing the plight of the Woolwonga in the years that followed.