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[11] Sydney Morning Herald 6 September 1843, p.2, [13] Port Phillip Patriot 23 December 1841, p. 3, [15] Fels, Marie Hansen (2010) I Succeeded Once: The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula 1839-1840 , ANU E-Press, pp 249-271, [16] See also: George Henry Haydon (1846) Five Years Experience in Australia Felix pp151-152 (on-line edition), [17] Port Phillip Gazette 30 April 1845 p.2, [18] Gardner, P D (2005) The Myth of Tribal Warfare On-line essay, [20] Geelong Advertiser 5 August 1843, p.2, [21] Sydney Morning Herald 6 September 1843, p.2. 0000020901 00000 n
[58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. 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. endobj 0000002096 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. endobj The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Sale, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. 0000008955 00000 n
Over there, thats where the whitefellas killed our old fellas., The Gurnaikurnai artist Steaphan Paton says the monuments to McMillan one calls him Gippslands discoverer should be removed: They belong in a museum, they dont belong on our land.. 0000003656 00000 n
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An independent expedition from Melbourne to Corner Inlet in the barque Singapore in the same year led to the discovery of the mouths of the Albert and Tarra rivers. [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. Gardner says this was almost certainly McMillan of Nuntin and that Dunderdale was mistaken as the person he was most likely referring to was McMillan of Bushy Park. It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. 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. 0000115891 00000 n
Historical. Where I live you can almost point in every direction [to a massacre site], he says. [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. 0000116989 00000 n
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I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. 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. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the . [4][1], Despite the widespread belief that MacMillan led several massacres, as of 2021[update] there are over 12 monuments in the Gippsland region dedicated to him. It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. 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. Here are some resources for further research. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. 0000014051 00000 n
He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. 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. 1 0 obj
Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. Its part of our life and its not that I dont stop and think about it. Perhaps the most apt way to name these outrageous and brutal occurrences is that they be called after the man who organised and perpetrated them: Angus McMillan. MAR [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. 0000020559 00000 n
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Bookings free, but essential. Beyond this, the subject needs a complete reassessment and the instilling of some academic rigour. the Warrigal Creek massacre - possibly even a participant in it 10. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. 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. Fri., 27 May 20225:00 pm 8:30 pm AEST, Siteworks Workroom 233 Saxon StreetBrunswick, VIC 3056. Don't miss the first Melbourne screening of an important new film, The Warrigal Creek Massacre, by former @Swinburne staff Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye and assisted by current and former Swinburne. /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. <>
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[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]. [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. 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. GLaWAC has been given permission to screen the Warrigal Creek Massacre film at our office at Forestec. 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 . e8
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`d``A h! Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. Considering that Gardner has political motives and a disdain for objectivity, his work should perhaps be seen as a political campaign rather than as history. 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. 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. Lachlan Macalisters demand of Gipps to provide protection for the settlers gives the impression that the settlers were on the defensive against both the Kurnai and the convicts. Your email address will not be published. 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. [40] Otherwise, he has no involvement in the story. Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. The answer is in three parts. Gardners reliability can best be judged by his rewriting of an inter-tribal massacre at Tambo Crossing. 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. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? Like Dunderdale and Thomas, he did not mention a mythical Highland Brigade and he was clearly not constrained by Gardners imaginary secrecy. 4751, June, 1980. The theme for Reconciliation Week 2018 is 'Don't keep history a mystery' Learn - Share - Grow. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the Brigade from one camp to another. 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]. Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). McMillan is mentioned once by Gippslander, where he is supposed to have caught Macalisters horse on the road to Sale (which did not exist then). 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? [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. Those who came in chains, those who fled famine, those who fled or survived genocide and war and its consequences. Runaways from the settlers, and others have located themselves in some vacated huts on the Tara River, rendering it dangerous for passengers to approach this neighbourhood Your Excellency cannot for the sake of humanity, good government, well-being, and the safety of this district, much longer withhold from us the protection of those laws which we have a right to demand at your Excellencys hands [21]. The Scottish colonist and pastoralist, Angus McMillan, led a group of around 20 colonists to attack and kill several groups of Aboriginal people across a number of days. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. Peter Gardner has written three books in which he asserts that Angus McMillan, The Butcher of Gippsland, was responsible for several massacres of Kurnai people. 0000024998 00000 n
Light refreshments will be available. 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. In the spirit of this year's NAIDOC theme Voice.Treaty.Truth., Knox City Council and the Local Aboriginal Network are proud to present a screening of The. Gardner claims it is a secondary source but it is, at best, folk history that he has embroidered with his own fiction about McMillan. 'Conspiracy of silence': how sabotaged inquiries fed massacre denials, Telling the truth about Australia's past will be painful but it will be liberating | Karen Mundine and Richard Weston, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 0000020785 00000 n
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Please call Drouin Library for more information 56 251564. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. Thu 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. 12 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. Required fields are marked *. 2020, Cnr. 2151 Buntines Bruthen Creek run was several miles and several squatting runs to the west of Warrigal Creek. /TT4 13 0 R /TT6 15 0 R /TT1 10 0 R >> /XObject << /Im2 16 0 R /Im3 18 0 R In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. 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. [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. Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . 0000030150 00000 n
share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. [43] The fallacy of this secrecy argument is that it is contradicted by Gardners own evidence from William Thomas from 1845 and other versions of the massacre story that pre-date Gippslander by more than fifty years (see below). 0000017382 00000 n
Advice: This page does not contain images of people who have died. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. 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. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. endobj The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. x]xG)mIq$hpwwR+VKqPMps^63.ffv>Y
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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 documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. Probably even as a child I just sensed something its a really spiritual place, she says. Gardner regards tribal warfare as a myth.[18]. 0000011274 00000 n
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Can only find the trailer. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. This essay appears in Decembers Quadrant. He was afterwards adopted by one of the party and called Bing Eye. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. %PDF-1.4
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The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. 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. The newspapers and Charles Tyerss reports indicate that attacks by the Kurnai continued in 1844 and 1845; they did not end at Warrigal Creek in 1843. According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. 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. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. 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. 0000016727 00000 n
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