One thing is clear from his work: the Kurnai men were warriors. 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. 0000007199 00000 n [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. 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. 1 0 obj They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. GLaWAC has been given permission to screen the Warrigal Creek Massacre film at our office at Forestec. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. Bunjileene was a leader of the Gunaikurnai people and Purrine was the head of the Lowanjerri tribe of the Bunurong. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. 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. To secure your seat go to. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. 0001021671 00000 n Gardners reliability can best be judged by his rewriting of an inter-tribal massacre at Tambo Crossing. 0000034127 00000 n 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. 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. endstream %PDF-1.4 % [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. Please try again. 0000033752 00000 n This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. %PDF-1.5 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]. 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. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the Brigade from one camp to another. The other was a little older; he made his escape up the creek by swimming and diving. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. 0000017382 00000 n One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. Bass Coast South Gippsland Reconciliation Group members Marg Lynn and Florence Hydon say they have been left completely unsatisfied: Stage one was getting rid of McMillan, of course, but stage two was totally frustrating.. Presumably he had reasons for both, but he did not say why and he did not reveal the source of his information. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 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 accepted Hoddinotts Gippslander story literally and uncritically, stating that it is completely reliable due to its vividness and detail. 0000010851 00000 n << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> Historical. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. Personally, it,s hard to know who to believe, such is my lack of confidence. This essay appears in Decembers Quadrant. [1] Gardner, P. D. (1993) Gippsland Massacres (third edition) Ngarak Press, Ensay, Victoria, p. 66, [3] Howitt, A W (1880) The Kurnai: Their Customs in Peace and War in Fison, L. and Howitt, A W Kamilaroi and Kurnai Anthropological Publications, Oosterhout, facsimile edition, pp 227-29, [6] Morris, H. B. Still from the Warrigal Creek Documentary produced by Swinburne University Introduction On 30 December 2020 Quadrant published an article entitled "The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal?" by Wayne Caldow1, which was a general attack on my work and in particular on the Warrigal Creek massacre. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. 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. Many Bunurong joined the police and used the guise of their role to extract vengeance on the Kurnai. It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. McMillan is not implicated in any of the material cited as evidence against him. endobj [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. 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. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. [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. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. 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. [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. 0000885516 00000 n 0 But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. 0000003041 00000 n 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. 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 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. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. Gardner, Peter, 'The Warrigal Creek massacre', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. 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]. [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. 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. In an essay on Gippsland from April 1843, Henry Bebb Morris described a mock fight between six Kurnai men using spears, boomerangs and waddies: they are small men, and when in repose would not be remarked for beauty or figure, but under the excitement of the fight they put every muscle into motion, and threw themselves into attitudes which would have graced a Grecian warrior. 0000010708 00000 n 0000024998 00000 n Advice: This page does not contain images of people who have died. 0001003043 00000 n 0000003570 00000 n [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. 0000034566 00000 n [56] These accounts nonetheless provide evidence of the otherwise unrecorded conflict between the Europeans and the Kurnai at places such as Bruthen Creek. This special screening is being hosted by the Healesville Local Aboriginal Network (LAN), Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association (HICSA), Yarra . He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. 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]. The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. Elizabeth 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. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b >> Purchase tickets, The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the Memo in Healesville on Wednesday 27 February at 6:45pm. 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. <>>> [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] We acknowledge that in our past, as in most nations, bad things have happened. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. Purchase tickets, One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. [52] There could not have been a cover-up if human remains were still visible after their arrivals. 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 . The historical record of this conflict up to 1843 is sparse and consists of just a few newspaper reports. 0000117691 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. 2151 Hoddinott said that more than 100 Aboriginal people were killed on that day. Gardner himself refers to Nuntin as the station established by McMillan for Macalister on western side of the Avon River in October 1840. 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. Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. << /Type /Page /Parent 3 0 R /Resources 6 0 R /Contents 4 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] I think the first thing for Gippsland is to acknowledge that it does have that history, like other places where bad things have happened, where massacres have occurred, where theres some acknowledgement of whats occurred instead of masking it, a Gurnaikurnai elder, Doris Paton, told the film-makers Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. 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. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. 0000116989 00000 n His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . 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. 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. He added that one of the Kurnai involved in the murder survived and often re-enacted his part in the ambush. 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). 4 0 obj She worries Australia is still not ready to listen. The statistical discrepancies likely emerged because Macmillan's group killed Aboriginal people at five different locations in the area. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. 0000002765 00000 n 0001000963 00000 n Convicts under the control of the penal system in the Port Phillip District and elsewhere were notorious for their crimes against the Aborigines. Many people accept the massacre as a matter of fact, as a truism. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. Warrigal Creek Massacre is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. The Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. 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. 0000118101 00000 n Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. Bells account is matter-of-fact and he did not name McMillan or any other person. 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. 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. 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. 0000029696 00000 n e8 m-T>6R'WrqPWUVe)0'Yn1UF]2|SOWS)^h|6xy. If the problem persists contact Customer Support. And forward if you like. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. 12 Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. 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. The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. 0000002096 00000 n McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. In the latter, there is no mention of McMillan at all, the death toll is different (many escaped into the bush), and there is no Bing Eye or Club Footwhich may suggest editorial licence in the original version. The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. Tyerss Convict Return for 1844 shows that convict labour was an integral part of the squatter economy. One might assume that Balderstone was blissfully unaware of this when she moved to the farm in 1974, but she explains she knew about Warrigal Creek from the beginning. endobj 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 Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. However, the region was isolated from the rest of New South Wales by mountains, rivers, forests, swamps and the fierce reputation of the Kurnai. 0000021061 00000 n 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. [11] The violent response from the Kurnai was the same as that meted out to their tribal enemies when defending their territory. 12/02/2019. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. 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. 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. These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. The Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. 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. >> /ExtGState << /Gs2 23 0 R /Gs1 24 0 R >> /Font << /TT2 11 0 R /TT3 12 0 R Its part of our life and its not that I dont stop and think about it. The Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. 0000002733 00000 n Robinsons comments are significant in that he was revealing that escaped convicts were responsible for mistreating the Kurnai. [32] Gardners work has been influential and generally unquestioned. 0000023940 00000 n [40] Otherwise, he has no involvement in the story. Your email address will not be published. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] 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]. 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. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. Most importantly, it does not say whereif Hatchers account is reliable, he was clearly not speaking about Warrigal Creek. It is about the importance of truth- telling. 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. 2 0 obj <> 27 May - 3 June. This land was never ceded. 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. Your email address will not be published. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. To those who came by jet plane yesterday. Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. News; Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. [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. 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. *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? 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 La Trobe Journal, 86, 23-36. The Author at Warrigal Creek 2016. 0000001456 00000 n Buntines Bruthen Creek run was several miles and several squatting runs to the west of Warrigal Creek. 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. This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. It was made to better understand our country's true history. 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. As fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot.. Robinson was also attempting to do the same, although by a different route. 2020, Cnr. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. The aim of this article is to examine Gardners interpretation of the Warrigal Creek massacre story and his accusations against McMillan. 29 May 2018. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. 0000003620 00000 n [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). At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. Around 60 Indigenous Australians were killed, and many more were wounded. He was afterwards adopted by one of the party and called Bing Eye. 3 0 obj It was, of course, impossible to identify any blackfellow concerned in the outrage, and therefore atonement must be made by the tribe. So far, this has been lacking. /TT4 13 0 R /TT6 15 0 R /TT1 10 0 R >> /XObject << /Im2 16 0 R /Im3 18 0 R Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. 0000115891 00000 n We wish to pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. 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. 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. While we are not personally responsible we continue to live different experiences from these events; some of privilege, some of disadvantage, some unknowing. 0000015443 00000 n 0000016727 00000 n The validity of the will remains a problem. He was joined by detachments of the Border and Native Police. I have seen somewhere that this version of the. 91 58 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. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. 4 0 obj [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. Continue here for the tools you already love, but be sure to explore everything else A trip to Gipps Land in April 1843 The Courier 23 June 1843, p.4, [8] Caldow, W (2012) Gippsland and the Van Diemens Land Livestock Trade: The Log of the Dew Drop 1847-49, The Great Circle, Vol 34, No. Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. 0000020559 00000 n Gardner cites other versions of the death of Macalister and the massacre to build his narrative, all based on Gippslander or otherwise post-Dunderdale. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. [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. Much has been written about the massacre of Aboriginal people that is believed to have occurred at Warrigal Creek in Gippsland in 1843. Gardners work has hints of Marxist reductionism, where the Kurnai are portrayed as living in an Arcadian economy that was destroyed by the expansionary capitalism of the land-hungry squatters. Light refreshments will be available. 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]. 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. 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