Multuggerah

Multuggerah was an Aboriginal Australian leader and resistance fighter of the Ugarapul[1] nation from the Lockyer Valley in Queensland.

[2] Multeggerah's tactics included road blocks made from felled trees, and setting an ambush site on a steep hill and in amongst bogs and heavy scrub.

Multeggerah organised ambushes of the supply drays on their way up the escarpment from the coast; "He had sent word to the Europeans, warning them not to come through.

[3] A counter attack against the Aboriginal battle group by more than 30 squatters and their servants was also turned back from the high ground by the use of spears and thrown rocks.

[1] The 800-metre (2,600 ft) viaduct on the Warrego Highway section of the Toowoomba Bypass was named in honour of Multuggerah.