0000030698 00000 n [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). The murder of his nephew gave him both a professional and a family interest in chastising the criminals, and he soon organised a party to look for them. This land was never ceded. % 29 May 2018. 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. endobj One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. 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. Perhaps the most revealing example of Gardners influence is Cal Flynns Thicker Than Water, in which McMillan is denounced by his own descendant. << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 7 0 R According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. endobj 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 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. This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. 0000002765 00000 n %PDF-1.4 % 0000003620 00000 n I welcome you all to (insert place name). Please note and use or adapt the following words. 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). 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. However, the region was isolated from the rest of New South Wales by mountains, rivers, forests, swamps and the fierce reputation of the Kurnai. 3 0 obj new domain, Events.com. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. 0000885516 00000 n 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. These stories contain the earliest known account of a massacre as revenge for the death of Macalister. The newspapers indicate that the murder was not an isolated event and occurred within a wider context of anarchy and violence involving the Kurnai and the convicts. The next day, while on horseback, he was speared through the neck from behind. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. In his first notes [in the 1970s], he talks about the massacre and, from the beginning of my time here, no one ever kept a blanket over the story. [11] The violent response from the Kurnai was the same as that meted out to their tribal enemies when defending their territory. Beyond this, the subject needs a complete reassessment and the instilling of some academic rigour. [44] The word colourful may have been more appropriate. Can only find the trailer. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary This documentary will be shown at the Regent Theatre in Yarram on 10 July at 7.30pm during Naidoc Week. As Bell indicates the early 1840s certainly were . I asked him if he was not afraid of meeting the Blacks, his reply was, Blks Sir no fear of them now they would run away as soon as they see a white man but there are not many left, he said he had a Brother who had been in Gippsland from the first his name was Bunton & kept a Public house in Gippsland by the Dirty Water Holes & a cattle station joining to Mr. McAllister who was killed, that after Mr. McAllisters murder great slaughter of the blacks took place and that on his brothers station a cart load of Blks bones might be gath.rd up [49]. 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. 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. In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. 0000002096 00000 n 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. In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. /TT4 13 0 R /TT6 15 0 R /TT1 10 0 R >> /XObject << /Im2 16 0 R /Im3 18 0 R 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. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. 0000007199 00000 n 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. 0000002733 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.". Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. 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. Those who came in chains, those who fled famine, those who fled or survived genocide and war and its consequences. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. 0000034566 00000 n 0001003043 00000 n Click here to subscribe. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. [15]. 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]. Gardner himself refers to Nuntin as the station established by McMillan for Macalister on western side of the Avon River in October 1840. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. 0000024560 00000 n Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. 0000017382 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. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. 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. 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. They did not find any Bunurong so they ransacked a squatters station instead. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. 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. The Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. 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. 0000005571 00000 n 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. 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. Where I live you can almost point in every direction [to a massacre site], he says. [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]. 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. endobj { 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 This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. 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. It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. Nonetheless, it demonstrates that the early settlement of Gippsland was marked by violence involving the Kurnai, the settlers and convicts. 0000115891 00000 n Light refreshments will be available. Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. On the 13th ultimo, Mr. Ronald McAlister was removing his sheep station about two miles from the settlement, when he was attacked by the blacks and murdered; his body was found the following day by a native in his employ. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> But I wish to look forward, unimpeded by SJWs. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. Smith Street and Albert Street, Warragul, 3820, VIC, AU. 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 . It may be student work out of Swinburne. 0000001936 00000 n Is there any aspect of our history that has now not been corrupted by the SJWs? The La Trobe Journal, 86, 23-36. 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. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. I learned a lot I had not previously known, and am still thinking about. 0000024227 00000 n An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. 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. 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. Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. 0000020785 00000 n 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]. NAIDOC Week 2019. 16 0 obj To discount Macalisters involvement, Gardner states there is no proof he was in Gippsland before 1848. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? stream I have seen somewhere that this version of the. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. 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 . 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. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. Events.com Browse is curated to help you find and attend events you love. Our land of migrants, from the very first in their canoes or who even walked here. 0000023940 00000 n In other parts of the District, prior to my arrival, they had occasionally come into collision with the Settlersthe consequence of which was the murder of four shepherdsand as far as I can learn without any provocationthey have also committed, and are still committing, many depredations on the stock of the Settlerswhich from the nature of the country, and the known fact of their carrying on their depredations at night, it is difficult to prevent. Hoddinott said that more than 100 Aboriginal people were killed on that day. His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.4 841.8] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. Light refreshments will be available. The answer is in three parts. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. The Author at Warrigal Creek 2016. [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. >> /ExtGState << /Gs2 23 0 R /Gs1 24 0 R >> /Font << /TT2 11 0 R /TT3 12 0 R The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. The area of Nuntin is on the western side of the Avon and was shown in a survey map of 1857. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. 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. My late husbands family had owned the property since the late 1880s and my father-in-law was a very passionate historian, she says. Voice.Treaty.Truth. trailer We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. Please try again. The men were easy prey for the Kurnai and by mid-1843, four had been murdered. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. 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Much has been written about the massacre of Aboriginal people that is believed to have occurred at Warrigal Creek in Gippsland in 1843. Facebook. Tyerss Convict Return for 1844 shows that convict labour was an integral part of the squatter economy. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. lizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victorias Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 60 metres from her house. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . 5 0 obj It is about the importance of truth- telling. 0000020971 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. To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. Many of the stock keepers were ticket-of-leave holders or assigned convict servants. 0000116989 00000 n Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a77bf3dc11d263ed9065ff8247406b97" );document.getElementById("bc64d4fe72").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Gardner claimsincorrectlythat Thomas was aware of the circumstances of the Warrigal Creek massacre, as he had recorded the details of it on two separate occasions. HLWKf_e|~JD,@K&HSU}t?nO?7OWO?zW_/Vew}V53VfyKwVh{OM5{=+JUwPfQ}-nXY34lMXGz+{? endstream endobj 92 0 obj <>/Metadata 5 0 R/PageLabels 2 0 R/Pages 4 0 R/StructTreeRoot 7 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 93 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC/ImageI]/Properties<>>>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 595.276 841.89]/Type/Page>> endobj 94 0 obj [95 0 R 96 0 R] endobj 95 0 obj <>/Border[0 0 0]/H/O/Rect[243.918 110.871 393.795 129.239]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> endobj 96 0 obj <>/Border[0 0 0]/H/O/Rect[262.285 160.096 431.264 175.524]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> endobj 97 0 obj <> endobj 98 0 obj [/Indexed/DeviceCMYK 244 110 0 R] endobj 99 0 obj [/ICCBased 111 0 R] endobj 100 0 obj <>stream Part III: Other Versions of the Massacre Story. 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. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. [22] Sydney Morning Herald 15 April 1844, p. 4; the article appears to have Lachlan Macalisters turn of phrase. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. [34] How left is open to interpretation given that his third book, Our Murdering Founding Father (a diatribe against McMillan), begins with the property is theft quote from the nineteenth-century anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Gary Foley's Koori History Website http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/indexb.html Kevin Gilbert, Because a . The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. 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]. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. 0000024998 00000 n The historical record of this conflict up to 1843 is sparse and consists of just a few newspaper reports. 0 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. The aim of this article is to examine Gardners interpretation of the Warrigal Creek massacre story and his accusations against McMillan. [citation needed] The group of Gaelic-speaking Scotsmen was known as the "Highland Brigade". 0000021061 00000 n Home News Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. 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. Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. 6 0 obj Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. Bunjileene was a leader of the Gunaikurnai people and Purrine was the head of the Lowanjerri tribe of the Bunurong. endobj Here are some resources for further research. In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. Your email address will not be published. e8 m-T>6R'WrqPWUVe)0'Yn1UF]2|SOWS)^h|6xy. 91 0 obj <> endobj 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. stream 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. I ill not believe anything about aboriginal history that does not have the Indigenous Seal of Approval by the Bruce Pascoe Ministry of Truth. This documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. Some basic research puts Hatchers account into context. 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. 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. 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. endobj Fri., 27 May 20225:00 pm 8:30 pm AEST, Siteworks Workroom 233 Saxon StreetBrunswick, VIC 3056. 0000010851 00000 n This article has been rated as Low-importance on the . The other forty-six convicts were employed on the squatting runs. 148 0 obj <>stream 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. 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