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At least 28 people, mainly women and children, were brutally murdered in the New South Wales town of Myall Creek.

"The Herald has a long and proud history of telling the Australian story. But on Myall Creek, the truth is we failed dismally."

The violence inflected in Myall Creek that day is only known because the perpetrators were tried and convicted, historians say.

The SMH said it was apologising on the 185th anniversary of the Myall Creek - on 10 June - because it felt "truth is an essential force for reconciliation".

The mass killings at Myall Creek Station were carried out by a group of European stockmen - mostly ex-convicts - who rounded up and executed 28 Wirrayaraay women, children, and elders, while the men in their families were working nearby.