To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. stream 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. The Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. ~]}.>xxs6s;^^`MjEa 5oA/P;uv!MU~86>>iBTju?#Ghnudlnr\;u?pIyo%# if+;J6fLA,4lMMhn]Zrg b_tr>b$3]wG4?mdw # 7Lw/_Mx+47nY;N9Uvs1;. He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. [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. Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. Light refreshments will be available. Following the murder, Lachlan Macalister wrote a letter to Governor Sir George Gipps via the Sydney Morning Herald in which he implicated the governor for the state of anarchy in Gippsland due to the lack of official protection. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. Happy New Year to all. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. 0000003041 00000 n News; Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. >> /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> % The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. 91 58 The men were easy prey for the Kurnai and by mid-1843, four had been murdered. So far, this has been lacking. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. [12] The first reported attack on the squatters came in 1841 when, it was said, 600 Kurnai attacked Macalisters run. Dunderdale states: Lachlan Macalister had a long experience in dealing with blackfellows and bushrangers; he had been a captain in the army and an officer of the border police. 0000001936 00000 n 0000001456 00000 n 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. T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo The validity of the will remains a problem. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. I welcome you all to (insert place name). xref 16 0 obj Nonetheless, it demonstrates that the early settlement of Gippsland was marked by violence involving the Kurnai, the settlers and convicts. I have seen somewhere that this version of the. 0000885516 00000 n 0000115969 00000 n Please try again. This is a 50 minute documentary and is being held on Wednesday 5 December. 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]. Smith Street and Albert Street, Warragul, 3820, VIC, AU. Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. They murdered, according to Gippslander, 150 at Warrigal Creek, which would make it one of the largest known massacres of Aborigines in Australian history.[36]. In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. 0000888069 00000 n *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? endobj y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk 0000000016 00000 n The mainland squatters wanted a share of this market and the Van Diemens Land butchers with Commissariat contracts needed to obtain livestock at the lowest price possible. [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. As Bell indicates the early 1840s certainly were . This implied that the other four police were assigned servants, or white slaves, as John Pascoe Fawkner, the editor of the Port Phillip Patriot and a fierce critic of the convict system, called them. 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. Can only find the trailer. qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 It beggars belief that it was accepted as a completely reliable historical source. 0000029696 00000 n A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. Its part of our life and its not that I dont stop and think about it. Shepherds worked in pairs, armed, as if in an enemys country, to resist them; and it was 1843 that ended by wholesale destruction, the massacres at Warrigal Creek and Bundalaguah Swamp, where only one aboriginal was left to tell the story of how they died and the history of his race.[61]. Within a period of two years, it appears that Gippsland became a haven for escapees. 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. 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. They did not find any Bunurong so they ransacked a squatters station instead. But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. [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]. [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. The next day, while on horseback, he was speared through the neck from behind. Presumably he had reasons for both, but he did not say why and he did not reveal the source of his information. Click here to subscribe. To those who came by jet plane yesterday. 0000024533 00000 n Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. 0000116524 00000 n From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. Is there any aspect of our history that has now not been corrupted by the SJWs? 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. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. Many of the stock keepers were ticket-of-leave holders or assigned convict servants. Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. new domain, Events.com. [41] The conspiracy of secrecy is used to explain why Hoddinott probably with good reason, chose to remain anonymous, as the account implicated Angus McMillan as the leader of this murderous retaliation. 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. 0000016727 00000 n Gardners reliability can best be judged by his rewriting of an inter-tribal massacre at Tambo Crossing. endstream Some basic research puts Hatchers account into context. [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. 2 0 obj Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. true /ColorSpace 25 0 R /Intent /Perceptual /SMask 26 0 R /BitsPerComponent 3 0 obj There is now a documentary on the Warrigal Creek Massacre, near Woodside, north of Yarram. 0001003043 00000 n [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. 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. [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. Gardner cites other versions of the death of Macalister and the massacre to build his narrative, all based on Gippslander or otherwise post-Dunderdale. Thomas wrote that Meyrick, gave me a most awful statement of doings in Gippsland & tho he stated the utter impossibility of bringing forward valid evidence to convict in a court of law, yet the awful spectacle of human skeletons & pack[s] of bones & report[s] of doings within the last 3 yrs, shows that the Aborigines have been cut off in awful numbers, & the residue left almost totally destitute, in fact he said how they lived God only knew as they were driven to the Lakes & Lagoons where Europeans would not follow them, that the Maneiro Blks (encouraged he believed by the early Settlers) [had] been very instrumental with the Black Police of awfully thinning their numbers that the Awful Sacrifice of life after the Murder of Mr McAlister was awfully reckless & merciless [53]. [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]. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. 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. 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. Gardner regards tribal warfare as a myth.[18]. 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. 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. [6=ViWy|4X$l`DvNk#F/W/kO>{Z_:/\ 'lrgQvFY+fGQ 4\y~QVG[\^aeiQ>mx2k |#R[?#5M. During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. 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. Bunjileene was a leader of the Gunaikurnai people and Purrine was the head of the Lowanjerri tribe of the Bunurong. And forward if you like. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. We are yet to have a complete understanding of Gippsland in the 1840s. It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. 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. This was written two years after the murder of Macalister; stating that the slaughter took place after the murder does not necessarily mean that it took place because of the murder. Thats not to say they dont exist, but if you have knowledge of such I would be grateful to know it. 0000034566 00000 n Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. 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. Intertribal warfare was endemic in the region with raid and counter raid where men, women and children were slaughtered as they slept, and then eaten. Our land of migrants, from the very first in their canoes or who even walked here. Inspire employees with compelling live and on-demand video experiences. 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? Use your same username and password to log in and you'll be This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 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. This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. One man was killed with thirteen spears, his body was mutilated, and his arms and legs were removedthe Kurnai were cannibals. [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. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. 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. Here are some resources for further research. 0000024560 00000 n 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. The Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. % 0000003620 00000 n He wrote a number of reports on the state of Gippsland to his superior, Charles La Trobe, the Superintendent of the Port Phillip District. While we are not personally responsible we continue to live different experiences from these events; some of privilege, some of disadvantage, some unknowing. [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. Bookings free, but essential. [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. 8 /Filter /FlateDecode >> The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. Versions of the stock keepers were ticket-of-leave holders or assigned convict servants been murdered the Warrigal Creek massacre Once. 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