0000003570 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. 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. Events.com has to offer. 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. 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 . 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. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> 0000020785 00000 n He was accompanied by George Henry Haydon, who published an account of their journey, which is also well known. 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. 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. 0000001936 00000 n 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. [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. Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary This documentary will be shown at the Regent Theatre in Yarram on 10 July at 7.30pm during Naidoc Week. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. endobj These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. true /ColorSpace 25 0 R /Intent /Perceptual /SMask 26 0 R /BitsPerComponent It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. [8], Michael Connor: The Massacre Maps shoddy research, In order to export livestock, the squatters needed a port and grazing land in Gippsland, as it was the closest part of the mainland to Van Diemens Land. 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. As fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot.. Required fields are marked *. [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. 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. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. <<6C2049F009130640B9B98E7F057F832E>]/Prev 1164416/XRefStm 1766>> 0000118101 00000 n Bookings free, but essential. Gardner himself refers to Nuntin as the station established by McMillan for Macalister on western side of the Avon River in October 1840. 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. 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. While we are not personally responsible we continue to live different experiences from these events; some of privilege, some of disadvantage, some unknowing. [56] These accounts nonetheless provide evidence of the otherwise unrecorded conflict between the Europeans and the Kurnai at places such as Bruthen Creek. Gardner cites other versions of the death of Macalister and the massacre to build his narrative, all based on Gippslander or otherwise post-Dunderdale. %PDF-1.3 This documentary captures a story from Victoria, however there were similar stories as the waves of colonisation swept across the country. Gunaikurnai people have visited the land for years to pay their respects, giving Balderstone some understanding of the pain and intergenerational trauma they still experience. 0000016727 00000 n Robinsons comments are significant in that he was revealing that escaped convicts were responsible for mistreating the Kurnai. 0000002096 00000 n The Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. 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]. /TT4 13 0 R /TT6 15 0 R /TT1 10 0 R >> /XObject << /Im2 16 0 R /Im3 18 0 R 0 Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. This provides a contrast to Gardners analysis, which is based largely on a story from a schoolchildrens magazine from 1925. 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. 0000001766 00000 n Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. 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. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. >> /ExtGState << /Gs2 23 0 R /Gs1 24 0 R >> /Font << /TT2 11 0 R /TT3 12 0 R Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. [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. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. I welcome you all to (insert place name). 0000024998 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. Their submission was denied; McMillan was renamed the Monash electorate instead. 0000014051 00000 n 0000116524 00000 n 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. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. The statistical discrepancies likely emerged because Macmillan's group killed Aboriginal people at five different locations in the area. 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. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. There were simple economic facts that led to this. [4] Howitts pioneering anthropological work is compelling reading and provides a suitable counter to many modern narratives. We acknowledge that in our past, as in most nations, bad things have happened. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. <> Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. [45] Australasian 15 September 1923 p. 55; 31 January 1925; Glen Innes Examiner 31 August 1911 p. 6; Smiths Weekly 12 April 1919, p. 15, [47] Gardner (1990) Our Murdering Founding Father, Ngarak Press, Ensay, p. 40, [51] Stephens, Margeurita, transcribed from the journal of William Thomas; cited on Peter Crowleys website Snow on the Jeeralangs, [52]Adams, John (1990) From These Beginnings, Alberton Shire Council, Yarram, p. 21, [54] Tyers, Charles 1859 Submission to the Select Committee on Aborigines, Government Printer, Melbourne, p.77, [56] Gippsland Times 24 June 2020 (on-line edition), [57] Dunderdale, George (1898) The Book of the Bush, Ward Locke, London, pp.214- 215, [60] County Lands in the Parishes of Bundalaguah and Nuntin, 1857, W T Dawson, District Surveyor, on-line copy, NLA. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. ?6m-^a_DD/UJ[ xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b We wish to pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. [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. He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. Perhaps the most revealing example of Gardners influence is Cal Flynns Thicker Than Water, in which McMillan is denounced by his own descendant. 0000017382 00000 n 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. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. 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. 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. Presumably he had reasons for both, but he did not say why and he did not reveal the source of his information. In Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. 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. He also claimed this appeared to be part of a cover-up due to the arrival of Tyers or Robinson. 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. [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. 0000033752 00000 n 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. 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. 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. 0000012931 00000 n 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]. << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 7 0 R 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. 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. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. 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. 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. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. [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]. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. 91 0 obj <> endobj Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. 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. [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] a federal electorate was renamed that year. 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. [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. Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. 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. Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. 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. We are here to help! During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. 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]. Originally reported by Robinson as such, Gardner has interpreted an obscure comment by Robinson to argue that it was actually a massacre by settlers that Robinson was covering up. 12/02/2019. Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. [22] Sydney Morning Herald 15 April 1844, p. 4; the article appears to have Lachlan Macalisters turn of phrase. One man was killed with thirteen spears, his body was mutilated, and his arms and legs were removedthe Kurnai were cannibals. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. 0000030698 00000 n 0001021671 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. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. @7k_|F_j}t'J'fu_}"Y5Xgx{ps:KQb#wOQ:/[]6Hy [42] Elsewhere he states that Hoddinotts desire to remain anonymous would seem to indicate that the telling of the story may have had undesirable repercussions. '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. endobj Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. He calls them The McMillan Massacres. 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. Many of the stock keepers were ticket-of-leave holders or assigned convict servants. This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. 0001000963 00000 n 4751, June, 1980. xref You can still browse your favorite events on our Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. However, the region was isolated from the rest of New South Wales by mountains, rivers, forests, swamps and the fierce reputation of the Kurnai. Events.com Browse is curated to help you find and attend events you love. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. Please call Drouin Library for more information 56 251564. 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. Bells account and the report of the massacre involving the Native Police in April 1845 can be found by simple searches on Trove. A European convicted of cattle stealing in the Port Phillip District faced the penalty of transportation for fifteen years; in Van Diemens Land, it was for life.[24]. This documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. Thu 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. Inspire employees with compelling live and on-demand video experiences. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk The return did not include ex-convicts.[28]. 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. Buntines Bruthen Creek run was several miles and several squatting runs to the west of Warrigal Creek. Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. 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 . This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 6 0 obj Continue here for the tools you already love, but be sure to explore everything else 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]. 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. 1 0 obj [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. [6=ViWy|4X$l`DvNk#F/W/kO>{Z_:/\ 'lrgQvFY+fGQ 4\y~QVG[\^aeiQ>mx2k |#R[?#5M. Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. Home News Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. The area of Nuntin is on the western side of the Avon and was shown in a survey map of 1857. HLWKf_e|~JD,@K&HSU}t?nO?7OWO?zW_/Vew}V53VfyKwVh{OM5{=+JUwPfQ}-nXY34lMXGz+{? [2] His work has indeed permeated academic and public discourse, but it contains many unproven assertions that undermine his main premise, that McMillan was responsible for the massacre. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. 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. In a letter to his family in England dated April 1846, the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick said: .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}The blacks are very quiet here now, poor wretches. 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 was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. In a letter to the Age in August 1874, R.L. Light refreshments will be available. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. trailer [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. 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. This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. Part III: Other Versions of the Massacre Story. )A?8yo]gNV2nj}cR2|#~M >A$M#~A^EQ ~Q{?pO0!&S7),}w4Wf+(L1Qd (wL~MdP{"&r'|2b7##lQ$*GJA]a8[B&DKv-vk@,#dD B79 j2zKD#,mgF(3dz_5W^LaJhs/QwFrqP{q[U}d Nonetheless, it demonstrates that the early settlement of Gippsland was marked by violence involving the Kurnai, the settlers and convicts. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. LGMedia. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. Gardner, Peter, 'The Warrigal Creek massacre', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. 0000010851 00000 n Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. [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]. 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. 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. McMillan is not implicated in any of the material cited as evidence against him. 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