0000115969 00000 n 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. 0001031115 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. new domain, Events.com. 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. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? %PDF-1.4 % He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the 'brigade' from one camp to another.". 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. [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. Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. 2 0 obj Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. 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. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 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. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. %PDF-1.3 According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. 0 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. [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. %PDF-1.5 He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. 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. Your email address will not be published. During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. Voice.Treaty.Truth. <> This special screening is being hosted by the Healesville Local Aboriginal Network (LAN), Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association (HICSA), Yarra . He also claimed this appeared to be part of a cover-up due to the arrival of Tyers or Robinson. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. In October that year, ninety-seven Kurnai warriors made a revenge raid into Bunurong territory. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. [2] Some historians assert that the number of 60 is an exaggeration, despite the witness accounts. qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 148 0 obj <>stream 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. endobj Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. 0000115891 00000 n He was shot through the foot and was so injured that he was called Club Foot.[39]. 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. Gardner accepted Hoddinotts Gippslander story literally and uncritically, stating that it is completely reliable due to its vividness and detail. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. I have seen somewhere that this version of the. Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary This documentary will be shown at the Regent Theatre in Yarram on 10 July at 7.30pm during Naidoc Week. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. We acknowledge that in our past, as in most nations, bad things have happened. 0000011274 00000 n This documentary captures a story from Victoria, however there were similar stories as the waves of colonisation swept across the country. <<6C2049F009130640B9B98E7F057F832E>]/Prev 1164416/XRefStm 1766>> My late husbands family had owned the property since the late 1880s and my father-in-law was a very passionate historian, she says. 0000020971 00000 n 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.. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.4 841.8] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). 0000020673 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. [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. [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]. % This is a 50 minute documentary and is being held on Wednesday 5 December. 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]. [40] Otherwise, he has no involvement in the story. Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. 0000015443 00000 n T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo 0000116524 00000 n e8 m-T>6R'WrqPWUVe)0'Yn1UF]2|SOWS)^h|6xy. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. 5|ya"R=:(O)Y?vM=u(f!ygaR@Dfx*qVhCqE CML@Ishk4 C&YE$A9M#~gyHN#,H^(eC:Z;o=ni!|"V?bx6c49Y+b FyELe_`GGWy&2SpKeQPZY4)OEe 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Here are some resources for further research. 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. [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. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. 0001064365 00000 n 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. 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. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. 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. And forward if you like. 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. Robinsons comments are significant in that he was revealing that escaped convicts were responsible for mistreating the Kurnai. I learned a lot I had not previously known, and am still thinking about. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. 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. 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. 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. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 01:43. Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. 0000005571 00000 n The Author at Warrigal Creek 2016. 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 . 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. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk 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. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 29 May 2018. Just before European settlement, the Kurnai raided as far as Brighton and Arthurs Seat on Port Phillip Baya distance of at least 120 kilometres as the crow fliesand they are believed to have wiped out about half of the Bunurong. Bookings free, but essential. The squatters were no doubt imbued with the belief that they had the right to do so on the authority of the British Crown, which claimed sovereignty over the entire continent. [60] Dunderdales geography was correct and it is just possible he knew who he was referring to, given that he arrived in the district just twenty-six years after the event he describedwell within living memory. Historical. A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. 16 0 obj Sell more tickets through digital marketing. Inspire employees with compelling live and on-demand video experiences. In July 1843 Angus McMillan and a group of his countrymen known as the Highland Brigade shot between 60 and 150 Gunaikurnai people in retribution for the murder of Ronald Macalister, the nephew of a wealthy pastoralist, Lachlan Macalister, who owned a local station called Nuntin. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. In 1845, Tyers reported on the Aborigines, stating: In the early part of 1843as I have been informed, some of the Corner Inlet tribe were occasionally employed by the few Settlers at Port Albert in carrying fire wood and in other light work for which they generally received payment in flour & cbut since the unprovoked murder of Mr Ronald Macalister by them at Port Albert, about that time, they have not been seen in the neighbourhood. He stated: Mr. Ranold McAlister, nephew of the allegorical author, was dragged off his horse, and cruelly murdered, on the township of Alberton, his head being so totally disfigured that his countenance could not be recognised among even his most intimate friends, by these harmless, innocent denizens of the wild of Gipps Land . Thu Thats not to say they dont exist, but if you have knowledge of such I would be grateful to know it. [1], The estimates of numbers of deaths vary: some historical accounts say that 60 people were killed,[citation needed] while other sources suggest that up to 150 people may have been killed. According to Dunderdale, Donald Macalister fired at some Kurnai without any provocation. 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. Date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan, led a group about. 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