Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. Here are some resources for further research. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. 0000885516 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on the banks of what is now Warrigal Creek in Gippsland. 0001021671 00000 n 0000003041 00000 n Your email address will not be published. Men, women and children are shot whenever they can be met with I have protested against it at every station I have been in Gippsland, in the strongest language, but these things are kept very secret as the penalty would certainly be hanging. If a historical narrative is to be used as the basis for debate or action in the public sphere, it should be grounded in non-partisan, objective research and analysis. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. 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. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. 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. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. 0000003620 00000 n This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. No reason was given for the murder. Create events for free. the Warrigal Creek massacre - possibly even a participant in it 10. Hoddinott said that more than 100 Aboriginal people were killed on that day. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. 2151 Home News Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. Many of the stock keepers were ticket-of-leave holders or assigned convict servants. Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. 0000012931 00000 n The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. 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 4 0 obj In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. [37] Again, no proof is offered. It beggars belief that it was accepted as a completely reliable historical source. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. The Gippslander account mentions the Highland Brigade and a death toll of 100 to 150, but McMillans involvement, Scotsmen, the swearing to God and the Queen, and secrecy, are entirely Gardners creation. [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. NAIDOC Week 2019. The aim of this article is to examine Gardners interpretation of the Warrigal Creek massacre story and his accusations against McMillan. LGMedia. endobj Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. 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. 148 0 obj <>stream To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. Perhaps the most revealing example of Gardners influence is Cal Flynns Thicker Than Water, in which McMillan is denounced by his own descendant. E lizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victoria's Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 60 metres from. Rather than pursuing plaques or western versions of reconciliation, as Irving puts it, the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation and the Bunurong Land Council put their energies into changing the name of their local electorate, which was named after McMillan. 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. Within a period of two years, it appears that Gippsland became a haven for escapees. Over there, thats where the whitefellas killed our old fellas., The Gurnaikurnai artist Steaphan Paton says the monuments to McMillan one calls him Gippslands discoverer should be removed: They belong in a museum, they dont belong on our land.. Our land of migrants, from the very first in their canoes or who even walked here. 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. Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. Launch date: Wednesday 4 AprilStratford Courthouse TheatreFree entry but bookings essentialRegister via Eventbrite http://bit.ly/2sTmWsCAbout the filmWhen An. 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. 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 . Robinson was also attempting to do the same, although by a different route. 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. 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]. stream They will be immediately recommended to interested users. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. Bookings free, but essential. 0000008955 00000 n 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. 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. >> % 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. These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b He calls them The McMillan Massacres. Second, Gardners narrative is based on the assertion that the massacre and Angus McMillan are synonymous, but he has produced no evidence whatsoever to implicate McMillan. Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. In the revised edition of Gippsland Massacres, Gardner reinvented the account, claiming the bones were carried away from the [Warrigal] Creek by the cartload. If you would like to participate, visit the project page. <> /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. It was well-acknowledged and put on the register of the national estate around the time., The house was built 20 years after the massacre and stands just 20 metres from the site. 0000016727 00000 n Film Screening The Warrigal Creek Massacre This country has a hidden history that is not widely acknowledged. 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. Your email address will not be published. I have seen somewhere that this version of the. endobj 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 . It was made to better understand our country's true history. 12/02/2019. 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. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. '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. 0000007199 00000 n George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. [citation needed], A witness, Willy Hoddinott, wrote the following in 1925:[3], "The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the Waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number, some escaped into the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. 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. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. 27 May - 3 June. [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. 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. 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. The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres south of Sale, and 200 kilometres east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. ~]}.>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;. << /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 293 /Height 146 /Interpolate Elizabeth Balderstone stands next to Warrigal Creek on her farm in Victoria the site of an 1843 massacre. He was joined by detachments of the Border and Native Police. 0001003043 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. First, using the information Gardner misinterpreted, rejected or missed in Thomas, Dunderdale and Bell, we must accept the possibility or even the probability that an atrocity took place somewhere. Tyerss Convict Return for 1844 shows that convict labour was an integral part of the squatter economy. 0000002903 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]. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. Welcome to you all., Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine Starting at $88.00 a year. 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. 0000117691 00000 n 0000001936 00000 n Many Bunurong joined the police and used the guise of their role to extract vengeance on the Kurnai. Smith Street and Albert Street, Warragul, 3820, VIC, AU. The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. 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. 6 0 obj One thing is clear from his work: the Kurnai men were warriors. This provides a contrast to Gardners analysis, which is based largely on a story from a schoolchildrens magazine from 1925. from [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. And forward if you like. 1 0 obj ?6m-^a_DD/UJ[ 0000029696 00000 n [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. [56] These accounts nonetheless provide evidence of the otherwise unrecorded conflict between the Europeans and the Kurnai at places such as Bruthen Creek. 0000034566 00000 n To those who came by jet plane yesterday. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? 3 0 obj 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. 0000003656 00000 n The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. Is there any aspect of our history that has now not been corrupted by the SJWs? He added that one of the Kurnai involved in the murder survived and often re-enacted his part in the ambush. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. Gardners reliability can best be judged by his rewriting of an inter-tribal massacre at Tambo Crossing. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. [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. Probably even as a child I just sensed something its a really spiritual place, she says. 0000118101 00000 n Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. In other words, by coincidence, Robinson and Hatcher arrived in Gippsland at exactly the same time. 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. 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. 0001064365 00000 n <>>> But I wish to look forward, unimpeded by SJWs. 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. endobj In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. 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. This special screening is being hosted by the Healesville Local Aboriginal Network (LAN), Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association (HICSA), Yarra . At the end of 1845, Tyers wrote a follow-up report stating: since the return of the Native Police to Head Quarters the depredations of the Aborigines of the District on the property of the Settlers, including horses as well as horned stock, have increased to an alarming extentand that I cannot at present suggest any other means of prevention, than the continuing service of the Native Police.[27]. An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. [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]. 0000020971 00000 n This essay appears in Decembers Quadrant. While we are not personally responsible we continue to live different experiences from these events; some of privilege, some of disadvantage, some unknowing. 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. 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Click here to subscribe. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. In July 1843, a European named Ronald Macalister was killed by First Nations men near Port Albert, in Victoria. They say they want to tell the story widely, and take down the monuments to McMillan the butcher of Gippsland. Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. 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. 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. 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. 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