Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. Events.com has to offer. Use your same username and password to log in and you'll be The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. <> 0000001456 00000 n 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. 0000117321 00000 n I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. Here are some resources for further research. The question posed at the start of this article was whether Gardners Warrigal Creek massacre story should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. [10] Caldow (2012) p.25; Caldow W (2010) The early livestock trade between Gippsland and Van Diemens Land: insights from Patrick Coady Buckleys journal of 1844. 0000001936 00000 n 0001021671 00000 n 0001064365 00000 n Create events for free. Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. Thu *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. 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. This essay appears in Decembers Quadrant. But we strive to be one people, equality of opportunity for all, no privilege by birth, truly one nation. McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. 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. 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. Nous et nos partenaires utilisons des cookies et des outils similaires afin d'assurer le bon fonctionnement de nos services, d'amliorer la fonctionnalit de notre site Web, de comprendre comment les visiteurs utilisent nos services afin que nous puissions amliorer nos performances, et des fins . 0001003043 00000 n endobj According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. endobj In 1845, Tyers reported on the Aborigines, stating: In the early part of 1843as I have been informed, some of the Corner Inlet tribe were occasionally employed by the few Settlers at Port Albert in carrying fire wood and in other light work for which they generally received payment in flour & cbut since the unprovoked murder of Mr Ronald Macalister by them at Port Albert, about that time, they have not been seen in the neighbourhood. 0000020971 00000 n 5 0 obj His words continue to have influence and have provided a convenient but misplaced source of outrageand how does the community benefit from having negative sentiments engendered on a false premise? 0000030698 00000 n According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. 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. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. The official reports from Tyers to La Trobe from 1844 to 1845 thus describe the situation in Gippsland where the settlers were being attacked by the Kurnai and their stock was being killed. Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. 0000011274 00000 n I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. The squatters were no doubt imbued with the belief that they had the right to do so on the authority of the British Crown, which claimed sovereignty over the entire continent. [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. 2020, Cnr. Robinson was also attempting to do the same, although by a different route. 12 [35] This simplistic reductionism obscures the complexity of Gippslands early history, evident in his rejection of Robinsons observations on the escaped convicts. [11] The violent response from the Kurnai was the same as that meted out to their tribal enemies when defending their territory. She worries Australia is still not ready to listen. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. Gardner himself refers to Nuntin as the station established by McMillan for Macalister on western side of the Avon River in October 1840. It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. 0000030150 00000 n [9], With an overland route opened by McMillan and a rudimentary settlement and port established on the Albert River at Port Albert, squatters began occupying the plains; by the end of 1844, the entire Gippsland squatting district had been occupied. Their submission was denied; McMillan was renamed the Monash electorate instead. 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]. Elizabeth Balderstone stands next to Warrigal Creek on her farm in Victoria the site of an 1843 massacre. 0000020559 00000 n It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. The men were easy prey for the Kurnai and by mid-1843, four had been murdered. Despite these obvious failings, a legion of dittographers in academia and the media have slavishly repeated and amplified this apocrypha without exposing its errors and falsehoods, or questioning its underlying assertions and lack of evidence. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. Second, Gardners narrative is based on the assertion that the massacre and Angus McMillan are synonymous, but he has produced no evidence whatsoever to implicate McMillan. 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. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. These stories contain the earliest known account of a massacre as revenge for the death of Macalister. Bookings free, but essential. We are here to help! There is now a documentary on the Warrigal Creek Massacre, near Woodside, north of Yarram. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b A documentary was made in 2018 and a federal electorate was renamed that year to remove the legacy of Angus McMillan, the alleged instigator, who is otherwise remembered as an explorer, squatter, MP and Protector of Aborigines. % 0000010708 00000 n 0000118101 00000 n 0000115969 00000 n He also claimed this appeared to be part of a cover-up due to the arrival of Tyers or Robinson. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. Bells account is matter-of-fact and he did not name McMillan or any other person. Gardner concludes that McMillan's group initially killed two family groups at Warrigal Creek waterhole and then a few days later killed another 60 people at the mouth of Warrigal Creek, then killing three other groups at Freshwater Creek, Gammon Creek, and Red Hill. 0000021061 00000 n Following the screening, VMIAC will facilitate a discussion about the film and its importance in understanding the effects of colonisation and inter-generational trauma and resilience for First Nations peoples. The Warrigal Creek Massacre is a 50-minute documentary, a passion project produced on a shoe-string budget, which looks unflinchingly at a horrifying episode of Victorian history - one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing of Indigenous Australians in the early colonies. Click here to subscribe. This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. 5|ya"R=:(O)Y?vM=u(f!ygaR@Dfx*qVhCqE CML@Ishk4 C&YE$A9M#~gyHN#,H^(eC:Z;o=ni!|"V?bx6c49Y+b FyELe_`GGWy&2SpKeQPZY4)OEe It was well-acknowledged and put on the register of the national estate around the time., The house was built 20 years after the massacre and stands just 20 metres from the site. stream His reports correlate with the newspaper accounts in describing the violent state of Gippsland. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. 91 0 obj <> endobj hb``0c`` `01$Q3(f`faPS``e` 0=!E Clq.~Jg` `d``A h! 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. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. Please note and use or adapt the following words. [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. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> The Van Diemens Land convict economy provided the economic motives for the European settlement of Gippsland, which in turn led to conflict with the Kurnai. Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. [25], Tyers noted that the Kurnai were geographically isolated from all of the neighbouring Aboriginal tribes, none of whom could understand their language, and From this circumstance, the Chief Protector [Robinson] on his visit to Gipps Land last year, was unsuccessful in his attempts to communicate with them. The isolation from the other tribes meant that their fierce and predatory habits have received no check.[26]. 0000034127 00000 n /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> [30] Escapees living outside the law would therefore have posed a dire threat to the Kurnai. 3 0 obj It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. 0000016727 00000 n [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] 0000000016 00000 n [48] Thomas (right) recorded a conversation with a man named Hatcher who Gardner believes was the brother-in-law of a Gippsland squatter named Buntine. In the revised edition of Gippsland Massacres, Gardner reinvented the account, claiming the bones were carried away from the [Warrigal] Creek by the cartload. 0000010851 00000 n Much has been written about the massacre of Aboriginal people that is believed to have occurred at Warrigal Creek in Gippsland in 1843. An unexpected error occurred. % Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. I ill not believe anything about aboriginal history that does not have the Indigenous Seal of Approval by the Bruce Pascoe Ministry of Truth. Warrigal Creek Massacre is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. 2151 L4V n)p>WRMXBe*(ru)%]>9,ZUN \p ,_`s=L{5vs{Gw 2ngnBaz0&#Xk+_ q10 m [23] Inwards correspondence Tyers to La Trobe 44/1367 p.5 PROV, [24] Port Phillip Gazette 21 May 1842, p.3, [25] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 45/324 PROV, [27] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 46/219 PROV, [28] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 44/2112, PROV; Port Phillip Patriot 12 August 1839, p.4, [29] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 44/1367, p.4, PROV, [30] Port Phillip Patriot 12 August 1839, p.4, [31] Gardner, P. D. (1994) Through Foreign Eyes, Ngarak Press, Ensay, p.45, [32]Gardner (1993) p.58; (1990) Our Murdering Founding Father, 2nd Edition, Ngarak Press, p.28, [33] The Guardian 6 March 2019; 8 March 2019; Gippsland Times 16 June 2020, [34] Gardner (1993) pp 6-7; (2015) Some Random Notes on Massacres 2000-2015 (on-line essay). 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. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo This letter indicates that the Kurnai were still harrying the squatters the year after the massacre is believed to have occurredthere was conflict with the Kurnai before and after the murder of Macalister. So far, this has been lacking. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. A Mr. Nelsons house was also attacked a few days before, and the blacks, after wounding a man in his employ, decamped with several articles of his property.[19]. He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . To secure your seat go to. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. Fri., 27 May 20225:00 pm 8:30 pm AEST, Siteworks Workroom 233 Saxon StreetBrunswick, VIC 3056. In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. x]xG)mIq$hpwwR+VKqPMps^63.ffv>Y ?hiO#'FZ@&.JGr4O,D5nHEK{GDs ,2fspcd88qpB[V,4~nfrpe8,$Y}i{rq]v9sl{3g &6mBRii&"0k2dZNPR5foHWJcJWLlel+_0d)[Vs[ ])[UJT+Wd41 No reason was given for the murder. From 1839, Angus McMillan tried on numerous occasions to reach Corner Inlet from the Monaro District and finally succeeded in February 1841 when he reached the tidal bank of the Albert River. It was made to better understand our country's true history. 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. 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. 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