Oban Holding is situated on the Barkly Tableland, an area that has been used successfully for pastoral purposes since the 1870s.

[1] Representatives of the Waluwarra Aboriginal Corporation have extensive oral history relating the incident.

However, no documentary evidence has been identified that gives the names of the people hanged, or whether there were more than 15 Aborigines involved in the cattle spearing.

Usually a timber horizontal beam was tied into a fork in a tree or scarfed in, using an axe to mortice it in.

A timber vertical post sometimes supported the far end of the horizontal beam, to give the structure greater strength and stability.

[1] Moonah Creek Hanging Tree was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 September 2005 having satisfied the following criteria.

Tension between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples was characteristic of the Queensland frontier, often resulting in tragic confrontations as the competition for land and resources escalated.