Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. 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. 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. 0000020901 00000 n Many people accept the massacre as a matter of fact, as a truism. [7], Many histories of Gippsland have quaint notions of founding fathers, churches and shires, but the reality is that squatters occupied the region in order to capture a share of the filthy lucre of the Van Diemens Land convict economy. 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. 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. Home News Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. The validity of the will remains a problem. 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. 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. 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. This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. 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. 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]. Can only find the trailer. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. endobj 0000007199 00000 n 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. 0000003570 00000 n Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. 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. 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. L4V n)p>WRMXBe*(ru)%]>9,ZUN \p ,_`s=L{5vs{Gw 2ngnBaz0&#Xk+_ q10 m These stories contain the earliest known account of a massacre as revenge for the death of Macalister. MAR 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. 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 Gardner regards tribal warfare as a myth.[18]. He also claimed this appeared to be part of a cover-up due to the arrival of Tyers or Robinson. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. Please note and use or adapt the following words. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. 3 0 obj If you would like to participate, visit the project page. Buntines Bruthen Creek run was several miles and several squatting runs to the west of Warrigal Creek. 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. Bookings free, but essential. Like Dunderdale and Thomas, he did not mention a mythical Highland Brigade and he was clearly not constrained by Gardners imaginary secrecy. 16 0 obj Around 60 Indigenous Australians were killed, and many more were wounded. [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. It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. [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. [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. ]V)cxN:*e%{ZXi8C -[Y1d-ZZ. 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. I welcome you all to (insert place name). Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. 29 May 2018. 0000005571 00000 n Some basic research puts Hatchers account into context. 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 murder of Ranald Macalister may have been the pretext for an attack on the Kurnai at Warrigal Creek or Gammon Creek but this is not borne out by the contemporary historical record. He was accompanied by George Henry Haydon, who published an account of their journey, which is also well known. new domain, Events.com. 0000010708 00000 n Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. It may be student work out of Swinburne. 0000024998 00000 n Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. <<6C2049F009130640B9B98E7F057F832E>]/Prev 1164416/XRefStm 1766>> This implied that the other four police were assigned servants, or white slaves, as John Pascoe Fawkner, the editor of the Port Phillip Patriot and a fierce critic of the convict system, called them. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. In a letter to the Age in August 1874, R.L. Peter Gardner[1]. 0000024560 00000 n Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. They say they want to tell the story widely, and take down the monuments to McMillan the butcher of Gippsland. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. a federal electorate was renamed that year. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. <>>> 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. 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. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. [2] Some historians assert that the number of 60 is an exaggeration, despite the witness accounts. Events.com Browse is curated to help you find and attend events you love. 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 Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. 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. [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. 0000885516 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. 2 0 obj 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. Perhaps the most revealing example of Gardners influence is Cal Flynns Thicker Than Water, in which McMillan is denounced by his own descendant. endobj >> /ExtGState << /Gs2 23 0 R /Gs1 24 0 R >> /Font << /TT2 11 0 R /TT3 12 0 R Required fields are marked *. We are here to help! 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. 12 from We acknowledge that in our past, as in most nations, bad things have happened. [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. 0000011274 00000 n [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. [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. This is an opportunity to look back, acknowledge events and move forward together as Australians, united though the country on which we all live and a better understanding of our nations history. [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] My late husbands family had owned the property since the late 1880s and my father-in-law was a very passionate historian, she says. GLaWAC has been given permission to screen the Warrigal Creek Massacre film at our office at Forestec. 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.. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. 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. [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. Click here to subscribe. This account is much closer in time to what may have happened at Warrigal Creek but Bell did not reveal how he knew of the massacres. LGMedia. 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. As Bell indicates the early 1840s certainly were . 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. <> Bunjileene was a leader of the Gunaikurnai people and Purrine was the head of the Lowanjerri tribe of the Bunurong. 27 May - 3 June. 0000118101 00000 n His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. 0000116989 00000 n true /ColorSpace 25 0 R /Intent /Perceptual /SMask 26 0 R /BitsPerComponent According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. 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