Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. 2 0 obj Gardner prefaced the following quote from Gippslander stating that after the murder of Macalister, An avenging party set out under the leadership of Angus McMillan , The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number, some escaped into the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for a breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. Hatcher appears to suggest that there was a massacre at Bruthen Creek; Gardner has either ignored or failed to grasp this to make the account fit his Warrigal Creek narrative. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. 0000033752 00000 n 0000020559 00000 n One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. The quote from Robinson is from Gardners book, Through Foreign Eyes; he says Robinson was incorrect to blame the convicts, because The hostile collisions that occurred following the murder of Macalister and others in Gippsland were carried out by the squatters and their employees.[31] This correction suggests that Gardner entirely overlooked the substance and significance of Robinsons observations. This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. [14], Conflict with the Kurnai was not restricted to the Europeans. 0000034127 00000 n 0000024560 00000 n Macalister stated that escaped convicts were committing the most revolting crimes the calendar can namesuch as murder, rape, robbery, forgeries, cattle-stealing, and last, though not least, sly grog-selling, the root of all crime. 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[45] Australasian 15 September 1923 p. 55; 31 January 1925; Glen Innes Examiner 31 August 1911 p. 6; Smiths Weekly 12 April 1919, p. 15, [47] Gardner (1990) Our Murdering Founding Father, Ngarak Press, Ensay, p. 40, [51] Stephens, Margeurita, transcribed from the journal of William Thomas; cited on Peter Crowleys website Snow on the Jeeralangs, [52]Adams, John (1990) From These Beginnings, Alberton Shire Council, Yarram, p. 21, [54] Tyers, Charles 1859 Submission to the Select Committee on Aborigines, Government Printer, Melbourne, p.77, [56] Gippsland Times 24 June 2020 (on-line edition), [57] Dunderdale, George (1898) The Book of the Bush, Ward Locke, London, pp.214- 215, [60] County Lands in the Parishes of Bundalaguah and Nuntin, 1857, W T Dawson, District Surveyor, on-line copy, NLA. /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> External Lived Experience Employment Opportunities, Complete the VMIAC Conference 2023 Survey, CEO Update with Craig Wallace | 17.02.2023, New Consumer Register Opportunity: Access Policy & Triage Guidelines, CEO Update with Craig Wallace | 03.02.2023, CEO Update with Craig Wallace | 20.01.2023. Where I live you can almost point in every direction [to a massacre site], he says. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. However, Thomas, Hatcher and Meyrick did not mention Warrigal Creek as Gardner claimsand they certainly did not mention McMillan. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. Men, women and children are shot whenever they can be met with I have protested against it at every station I have been in Gippsland, in the strongest language, but these things are kept very secret as the penalty would certainly be hanging. qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the 'brigade' from one camp to another.". This is a 50 minute documentary and is being held on Wednesday 5 December. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. [16] The Port Phillip Gazette reported in April 1845: A report has been current that a whole tribe of blacks has been extirpated in the Gipps Land country, by the Western Port or Port Phillip blacks, led on by several of the Mounted Black Police; we understand that an investigation is now going on, and we may add it is one of the most extraordinary affairs we have yet heard about. %PDF-1.4 % stream 0000016727 00000 n [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. The Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. Convicts were present in the early years of settlement in Gippsland in two very different ways: first, as the slave labour of the squatters, and second, as escapees congregated around Alberton. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. He was afterwards adopted by one of the party and called Bing Eye. Among the most shocking is the Jack Smith massacre (Warrigal Creek, Victoria) in 1843, where about 150-170 Brataualang people were killed over 5 days in retaliation for the killing of one single personRonald Macalister, the nephew of a local squatter. Their submission was denied; McMillan was renamed the Monash electorate instead. Many people accept the massacre as a matter of fact, as a truism. Inspire employees with compelling live and on-demand video experiences. Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. Gardners fiction about McMillan, his misquoting of source material, and his reliance on an unattributed, anonymous and generic story truly relegates his Warrigal Creek narrative to the realms of the apocryphal. Welcome to you all., Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine Starting at $88.00 a year. Gunaikurnai people have visited the land for years to pay their respects, giving Balderstone some understanding of the pain and intergenerational trauma they still experience. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. [citation needed], A witness, Willy Hoddinott, wrote the following in 1925:[3], "The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the Waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number, some escaped into the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. [6], In contrast, there is an implicit assumption in Gardners work that the Kurnai were passive victims of European violence, but this does not do them justice. 0000020673 00000 n Some themes may be unpalatable, including tribal warfare, the murderous role of the Native Police, and the role of convicts as both slave labour and perpetratorsthey are part of the historical record but not always part of the written history. 0000001456 00000 n endobj [13], The squatting runs were large tracts of unfenced landMacalister had 100 square mileswhere livestock was left in charge of shepherds and hut keepers whose job it was to tend the livestock and prevent it from straying. Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. 0000020785 00000 n Nonetheless, it demonstrates that the early settlement of Gippsland was marked by violence involving the Kurnai, the settlers and convicts. [2] His work has indeed permeated academic and public discourse, but it contains many unproven assertions that undermine his main premise, that McMillan was responsible for the massacre. It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. The men were easy prey for the Kurnai and by mid-1843, four had been murdered. << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 7 0 R The Geelong Advertiser reported the murder: It is reported that Mr. McAllister was decoyed from his station by a party of blacks on pretext of having found a flock of sheep that had been missing, and that having got him to a spot favourable for their murderous purpose, they set upon him with their waddies, and despatched him under circumstances of the utmost barbarity.[20]. The historical record of this conflict up to 1843 is sparse and consists of just a few newspaper reports. new domain, Events.com. 148 0 obj <>stream This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. 0001000963 00000 n This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. In my research for Bitter Harvest, I could find no reference, in original sources, to The Highland Brigade, established, according to the Gardner version of history, to seek out and exterminate blacks. Messrs. Pearson and Cunninghame have been the latest sufferers by those cannibals; it is not only the stock they kill we feel the loss of, but running the remainder off their runs, and the expense the proprietors are put to in collecting their cattle, and procuring guns and ammunition for everyone engaged in their employment.[22]. >> The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. While the murder was well documented in contemporary newspaper accounts, the reports also indicate that by mid-1843, Gippsland was in a state of disarray. The story was written anonymously for a magazine for primary school children eighty-two years after the incident described, without attribution, and by someone who was not there. Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] [45] Hoddinotts tale thus appears to contain generic elements from the period. He was accompanied by George Henry Haydon, who published an account of their journey, which is also well known. You can still browse your favorite events on our In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. Their territory extended along the coast from Cape Liptrap in the west to Point Hicks in the east, and inland to the Great Dividing Range in the north. He calls them The McMillan Massacres. The Warrigal Creek Massacre | About the film When Angus McMillian and the Highland Brigade rode through Gippsland in 1843, they aimed to murder as many Gunai Kurnai children, women and men as they could. 12 My late husbands family had owned the property since the late 1880s and my father-in-law was a very passionate historian, she says. 0000030698 00000 n 3 0 obj We wish to pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. He added that one of the Kurnai involved in the murder survived and often re-enacted his part in the ambush. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 01:43. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. Wayne, a very valuable and comprehensive article. [50] This raises two issues: first, this is a fallacious misuse of the material; Hatcher said the bones might be gathered uphis might be has transmogrified into Gardners were. T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo 0001064425 00000 n He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the Brigade from one camp to another. Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. 16 0 obj startxref Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. One man was killed with thirteen spears, his body was mutilated, and his arms and legs were removedthe Kurnai were cannibals. 91 0 obj <> endobj Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. endobj There are two significant aspects to this story: Dunderdale specifically named Lachlan Macalister as the perpetrator and he added the caveat on the death toll. He also stated: There are many persons congregated in Alberton, without any visible means of earning a livelihood, a parcel of the most lawless rogues. 0000020971 00000 n 0000017382 00000 n I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. 0000010708 00000 n The murder of Ranald Macalister may have been the pretext for an attack on the Kurnai at Warrigal Creek or Gammon Creek but this is not borne out by the contemporary historical record. He stated: Mr. Ranold McAlister, nephew of the allegorical author, was dragged off his horse, and cruelly murdered, on the township of Alberton, his head being so totally disfigured that his countenance could not be recognised among even his most intimate friends, by these harmless, innocent denizens of the wild of Gipps Land . He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. This 50-minute documentary directed by Lisa Gye and Andrew Dodd examines a day in 1843 when 150 Indigenous men, women and children were slaughtered on the banks of what is now Warrigal Creek in Gippsland. In Chapter 1 of Gippsland Massacres, he states: There was a brigade formed by McMillan, which according to Gippslander, was called the Highland Brigade, and mainly consisted of Scotsmen who swore before God and their Queen not to inform on their fellow desperados, and to maintain complete secrecy of the affair in which they were about to participate. The area of Nuntin is on the western side of the Avon and was shown in a survey map of 1857. MAR <> E lizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victoria's Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 60 metres from. 0000002765 00000 n The Gippslander story consists of just over a page; within it there is a myriad of minor details that are contradicted by the contemporary newspaper reports. The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. Rather than pursuing plaques or western versions of reconciliation, as Irving puts it, the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation and the Bunurong Land Council put their energies into changing the name of their local electorate, which was named after McMillan. 0000034566 00000 n 6az Q";cM;|?)/ Bg~VK7QVK_6 +K}\\&h"DmWK+^>Pnu"8H8@sF1jO-@g?XjGs=2]v'x9y[6p X &.-Yl;;]+/[r=w(\QwG SDB?#86mXpqrOzX\R++QkEfz75Br,=t'F4_]Ug@dNq{":Q7 &DvB )vBqKwbm%aM!._aiaekE)hc_9lujzR10IrR--6HWXSA[Wd{DS#~}wDvenr,rFU-}aOe(d}b Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. endstream Around 60 Indigenous Australians were killed, and many more were wounded. The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres (25mi) south of Sale, and 200 kilometres (120mi) east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. [46] Gardner admonished Hoddinott, stating, in this account he failed to implicate McMillan as he had done 15 years earlierbut neither version implicated McMillan.[47]. L4V n)p>WRMXBe*(ru)%]>9,ZUN \p ,_`s=L{5vs{Gw 2ngnBaz0&#Xk+_ q10 m Film Screening The Warrigal Creek Massacre This country has a hidden history that is not widely acknowledged. [32] Gardners work has been influential and generally unquestioned. y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk This letter indicates that the Kurnai were still harrying the squatters the year after the massacre is believed to have occurredthere was conflict with the Kurnai before and after the murder of Macalister. Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> 91 58 @7k_|F_j}t'J'fu_}"Y5Xgx{ps:KQb#wOQ:/[]6Hy Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. The Warrigal Creek Massacre event will include: Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country Refreshments Filmscreening Panel-led discussion Date: Thursday 11 July 2019 Time: 6.30pm . 0000010851 00000 n Purchase tickets, The culture of secrecy surrounding the massacres was evident in Willy Hoddinotts account (as an anonymous Gippslander) published in the Gap magazine more than 80 years later: .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number, some escaped into the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. We acknowledge that in our past, as in most nations, bad things have happened. [42] Elsewhere he states that Hoddinotts desire to remain anonymous would seem to indicate that the telling of the story may have had undesirable repercussions. If a historical narrative is to be used as the basis for debate or action in the public sphere, it should be grounded in non-partisan, objective research and analysis. There were further reports of violence involving the Kurnai in April 1844 when the Sydney Morning Herald printed a letter from a Gippsland squatter: The blacks are still continuing their outragesburning huts, robbing peoples gardens, and slaughtering cattle by wholesale. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. This is an opportunity to look back, acknowledge events and move forward together as Australians, united though the country on which we all live and a better understanding of our nations history. A Mr. Nelsons house was also attacked a few days before, and the blacks, after wounding a man in his employ, decamped with several articles of his property.[19]. A documentary was made in 2018 and a federal electorate was renamed that year to remove the legacy of Angus McMillan, the alleged instigator, who is otherwise remembered as an explorer, squatter, MP and Protector of Aborigines. Continue here for the tools you already love, but be sure to explore everything else This provides a contrast to Gardners analysis, which is based largely on a story from a schoolchildrens magazine from 1925. This changed with the arrival of Tyers, who told La Trobe: The run-away Convicts, and other bad characters with which the District was infested a few months ago have, I believe been nearly all driven out by the system of surveillance pursued by the Border Police, acting under my instructions.[29]. As fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot.. [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b The blacks were found encamped near a waterhole at Gammon Creek, and those who were shot were thrown into it, to the number, it was said, of about sixty, men, women, and children; but this was probably an exaggeration.[57]. x[Ys~W`R.$7nN$QI.%>pA>\83FOT]K!+qq{|$E hj]Qw >|nQ)jn'L-.~>>ze)/[B_=|?b1R2Kz~&>,g0cppJBw'YzDh/sZOfyfALsn/P%v=3jeVy~;>H"Oj4**@EBxT14:=l3\Es`eeJZT%L}nz`^Kgxh |[jXaxqGw"0'JH-i`L>_n#&,6IvGr:hu'j^xsFo}\vfuklR4f/eK-fig;)pE?itkoe~x-gd}Y~N0f=)` s[/wE\|(u2|Jvp:n Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . One thing is clear from his work: the Kurnai men were warriors. She worries Australia is still not ready to listen. Massacre [ edit] The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. If you would like to participate, visit the project page. McMillan made the first export of livestock to Van Diemens Land in 1842 and the trade continued until 1868 when it was halted by a tariff war between Victoria and Tasmania. It was made to better understand our country's true history. The Australian reported in August: The Prince George touched at Port Albert on the 25th ultimo, and reports that the Agenoria is taking in cattle there, the captain of which reported the blacks to be in a very riotous state. Thats not to say they dont exist, but if you have knowledge of such I would be grateful to know it. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. Light refreshments will be available. For them to do that and come up with a shared name was a major achievement. The Warrigal Creek Massacre on Vimeo. 0000115969 00000 n There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. Some basic research puts Hatchers account into context. Purchase tickets, The return did not include ex-convicts.[28]. Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. Establishing the factual basis of this will require in-depth research to uncover any written evidence before Bells account from 1874, as well as archaeological evidence at locations such as Bruthen Creek and Bundalaguah Swamp. Peter Gardner[1]. [7], Many histories of Gippsland have quaint notions of founding fathers, churches and shires, but the reality is that squatters occupied the region in order to capture a share of the filthy lucre of the Van Diemens Land convict economy. [33] His work was cited widely in a motion to remove monuments to McMillan put before the Wellington Shire Council in June 2020. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. The next day, while on horseback, he was speared through the neck from behind. If the problem persists contact Customer Support. 0000015443 00000 n 0000118101 00000 n In other words, by coincidence, Robinson and Hatcher arrived in Gippsland at exactly the same time. 12/02/2019. Gardner cites this version to confirm that Gippslander was in fact Hoddinott but he does not mention that the two versions contain a number of significant differences. Its part of our life and its not that I dont stop and think about it. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the . Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. [60] Dunderdales geography was correct and it is just possible he knew who he was referring to, given that he arrived in the district just twenty-six years after the event he describedwell within living memory. Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. Facebook. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? Frustrated with the hidden history of the massacre, the makers of this 50-minute documentary sought oral histories and combed through archival works to capture and relay the truth of Australias violent past. The Chief Protector of Aborigines, George Augustus Robinson (right), noted that the settlers were not the only ones to suffer from the convicts: There is however reason to fear that before the arrival of the Commissioner a large amount of mischief had been inflicted upon the original Inhabitants by the lawless and depraved who had infested the port from Van Diemens Land and the Middle Districts [present-day New South Wales] and that the instance recorded (if reports be true) is not the only one in which the Blacks have suffered. They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. 0001003043 00000 n The Author at Warrigal Creek 2016. [2] Some historians assert that the number of 60 is an exaggeration, despite the witness accounts. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. 0000002733 00000 n They will be immediately recommended to interested users. Viki Sinclair, another member of the group who is descended from a member of McMillans Highland Brigade, says: Its the first time around here that the Aboriginal groups came across with groups like ours to work on something like this and it was something important to tackle and do together. The timing of this record is important because it was made after two of the three searches for a white woman allegedly held captive by the Kurnai. News; Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. Happy New Year to all. Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. It beggars belief that it was accepted as a completely reliable historical source. Historian Peter Gardner, in a review of all accounts of the massacre, wrote that MacMillan and the Highland Brigade aimed to wipe out all the Aboriginal people in the area. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. In July 1843 Angus McMillan and a group of his countrymen known as the Highland Brigade shot between 60 and 150 Gunaikurnai people in retribution for the murder of Ronald Macalister, the nephew of a wealthy pastoralist, Lachlan Macalister, who owned a local station called Nuntin. Bells account is matter-of-fact and he did not name McMillan or any other person. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. We were hearing the stories all the time, especially when we were near the places or going past somewhere, my mum would always say, Over that way. Shed point the finger and say, Dont go that way. 0000115891 00000 n 0000116524 00000 n Coincidentally or not, the Australasian newspaper published stories between 1923 and 1925 with a one-eyed Aboriginal character named Bing-eye; the term club foot was ubiquitous. LGMedia. Gardners evidence for Angus McMillans involvement in the Warrigal Creek massacre consists of a story written for The Gap school magazine in 1925 by William Hoddinott under the pseudonym of Gippslander. [3] Their customs and society were studied in detail by Alfred W. Howitt, but due to violence and the effects of disease, alcohol and the mission system, much traditional knowledge had already been lost by the time he began recording information in the mid-1860s. Bell stated: The historic pen of Victorian settlement would paint with truth the horrors of many a scene of Gipps Land life; it was in 1843 that the aggressions of the blacks were so frequent. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. { L{ c$Nb`6`4` ` DwG'g5A$Y&e&i 64*6Cs!k >/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[7 84]/Length 22/Size 91/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream First, using the information Gardner misinterpreted, rejected or missed in Thomas, Dunderdale and Bell, we must accept the possibility or even the probability that an atrocity took place somewhere. Searching for information on frontier conflict in old newspapers (film or hard copy) was the proverbial "needle in a haystack" task - time consuming and exhausting with few . First though, it is necessary to establish the circumstances that led to the European settlement of Gippsland and the resulting conflict with the indigenous Kurnai people, which is the root of the massacre story. 0000005571 00000 n <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.4 841.8] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> The answer is in three parts. *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. In July 1844 he wrote, I regret however to observe that the depredations of the Aborigines continue and that the small police force at my disposal is inadequate to put a stop to them. He went on to describe how the natives have been very troublesome, killing 90 head of cattle belonging to Mr Sparks, at various times, and many belonging to Mr Jones. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. 0000002096 00000 n 2020, Cnr. Following the screening, VMIAC will facilitate a discussion about the film and its importance in understanding the effects of colonisation and inter-generational trauma and resilience for First Nations peoples. Gunaikurnai people continue to visit the land to pay their respects. ]V)cxN:*e%{ZXi8C -[Y1d-ZZ. The other was a little older; he made his escape up the creek by swimming and diving. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. People need to feel that their voices and stories are heard and we need to listen with humility because theres not just emotional hurt there, but also terrible physical pain, Irving says. In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. 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