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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. 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 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? %PDF-1.5 [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] In Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. 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 included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. 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. [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. 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 . Is there any aspect of our history that has now not been corrupted by the SJWs? The Warrigal Creek Massacre on Vimeo. endobj Gary Foley's Koori History Website http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/indexb.html Kevin Gilbert, Because a . 0000034127 00000 n 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. [37] Again, no proof is offered. They did not find any Bunurong so they ransacked a squatters station instead. 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. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. 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. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. [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. 0000888069 00000 n I welcome you all to (insert place name). [30] Escapees living outside the law would therefore have posed a dire threat to the Kurnai. 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. Happy New Year to all. 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. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. His alleged role in the massacre is a construct entirely of Gardners own making, where he attached McMillans name to the Gippslander story without revealing this to his readers. He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. To discount Macalisters involvement, Gardner states there is no proof he was in Gippsland before 1848. 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]. Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. Massacre [ edit] Can only find the trailer. In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. Film Screening The Warrigal Creek Massacre This country has a hidden history that is not widely acknowledged. The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. Hoddinott said that more than 100 Aboriginal people were killed on that day. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. 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. 12 The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? 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. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. Purchase tickets, We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. 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. But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. [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. Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. 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. [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. 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. Wayne, a very valuable and comprehensive article. a federal electorate was renamed that year. 2 0 obj 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. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. 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. Your email address will not be published. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. Thu 0000116524 00000 n 0000115969 00000 n Thats not to say they dont exist, but if you have knowledge of such I would be grateful to know it. Here are some resources for further research. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] 0000010851 00000 n Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. >> /ExtGState << /Gs2 23 0 R /Gs1 24 0 R >> /Font << /TT2 11 0 R /TT3 12 0 R Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. 3 0 obj 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. There is now a documentary on the Warrigal Creek Massacre, near Woodside, north of Yarram. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. [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]. Historical. The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. endobj 0001064309 00000 n 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 . But we strive to be one people, equality of opportunity for all, no privilege by birth, truly one nation. The current awareness of the Warrigal Creek massacre stems largely from the writing of the self-published historian Peter Gardner, who contends that his work represents currently accepted history. 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. 0001000963 00000 n 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. Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. Inspire employees with compelling live and on-demand video experiences. 2020, Cnr. The answer is in three parts. He added that one of the Kurnai involved in the murder survived and often re-enacted his part in the ambush. 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. 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. endstream 12/02/2019. 4751, June, 1980. And forward if you like. They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. The stories were republished as The Book of the Bush in 1898. McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. 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. [11] The violent response from the Kurnai was the same as that meted out to their tribal enemies when defending their territory. [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. These stories contain the earliest known account of a massacre as revenge for the death of Macalister. 0001003043 00000 n Gardner claims it is a secondary source but it is, at best, folk history that he has embroidered with his own fiction about McMillan. 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. It may be student work out of Swinburne. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. He calls them The McMillan Massacres. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. [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. His reports correlate with the newspaper accounts in describing the violent state of Gippsland. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. [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. 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]. startxref 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. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. 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. endobj 0001031115 00000 n [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. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. 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. Please try again. endobj [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. 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 claimsincorrectlythat Thomas was aware of the circumstances of the Warrigal Creek massacre, as he had recorded the details of it on two separate occasions. '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. 0000003620 00000 n [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> [33] His work was cited widely in a motion to remove monuments to McMillan put before the Wellington Shire Council in June 2020. /TT4 13 0 R /TT6 15 0 R /TT1 10 0 R >> /XObject << /Im2 16 0 R /Im3 18 0 R He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the Brigade from one camp to another. 0000002733 00000 n 0000001936 00000 n 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. This land was never ceded. 0000116989 00000 n The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. The attack on the Brataualung people camped at Warrigal Creek was one of several incidents resulting in loss of life among the Gunai Kurnai people. stream [45] Hoddinotts tale thus appears to contain generic elements from the period. Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. He was accompanied by George Henry Haydon, who published an account of their journey, which is also well known. 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. His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. As fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot.. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. We are here to help! 5 0 obj Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. 4 0 obj At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. Please note and use or adapt the following words. 0000020901 00000 n 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. Most importantly, it does not say whereif Hatchers account is reliable, he was clearly not speaking about Warrigal Creek. 0000003656 00000 n The other was a little older; he made his escape up the creek by swimming and diving. 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 0000024560 00000 n 0000116300 00000 n [52] There could not have been a cover-up if human remains were still visible after their arrivals. 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. 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. Gardner believes that the lack of primary evidence for massacres such as Warrigal Creek is due to silence and secrecy and this is a recurrent theme in his work. 0000034566 00000 n A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . 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. This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. It is about the importance of truth- telling. 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. 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. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. 0000020559 00000 n [15]. 0000024227 00000 n endobj 0000033752 00000 n Launch date: Wednesday 4 AprilStratford Courthouse TheatreFree entry but bookings essentialRegister via Eventbrite http://bit.ly/2sTmWsCAbout the filmWhen 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.At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies.Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre.Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past.Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye.Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell.Supported by Swinburne University. 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