0000888069 00000 n The aim of this article is to examine Gardners interpretation of the Warrigal Creek massacre story and his accusations against McMillan. This documentary tells the story of the Warrigal Creek massacre of 1843 in Gippsland, Victoria, where as many as 150 Gunai Kurnai children, women and . 0001031115 00000 n 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. Personally, it,s hard to know who to believe, such is my lack of confidence. Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. 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 The Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of 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. <>>> Those who came in chains, those who fled famine, those who fled or survived genocide and war and its consequences. But I wish to look forward, unimpeded by SJWs. stream He was afterwards adopted by one of the party and called Bing Eye. Your email address will not be published. % 0000002096 00000 n An unexpected error occurred. 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. In October that year, ninety-seven Kurnai warriors made a revenge raid into Bunurong territory. He calls them The McMillan Massacres. 0000020785 00000 n [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. 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. [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. 0000001456 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. I ill not believe anything about aboriginal history that does not have the Indigenous Seal of Approval by the Bruce Pascoe Ministry of Truth. 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. This special screening is being hosted by the Healesville Local Aboriginal Network (LAN), Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association (HICSA), Yarra . endobj 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. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. This land was never ceded. 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? Events.com has to offer. startxref The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. 0000116524 00000 n 0000116300 00000 n His reports correlate with the newspaper accounts in describing the violent state of Gippsland. 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. It was, of course, impossible to identify any blackfellow concerned in the outrage, and therefore atonement must be made by the tribe. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. 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. MAR 0000000016 00000 n An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. But we strive to be one people, equality of opportunity for all, no privilege by birth, truly one nation. )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 To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. 0001021671 00000 n [43] The fallacy of this secrecy argument is that it is contradicted by Gardners own evidence from William Thomas from 1845 and other versions of the massacre story that pre-date Gippslander by more than fifty years (see below). from Create events for free. They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. 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.. searching events in no time. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. According to Dunderdale, Donald Macalister fired at some Kurnai without any provocation. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . 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. This documentary captures a story from Victoria, however there were similar stories as the waves of colonisation swept across the country. 0000002765 00000 n Buntines Bruthen Creek run was several miles and several squatting runs to the west of Warrigal Creek. It may be student work out of Swinburne. trailer [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. << /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 293 /Height 146 /Interpolate This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. No reason was given for the murder. 16 0 obj Historical. Facebook. Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. 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. Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. 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. [citation needed] The group of Gaelic-speaking Scotsmen was known as the "Highland Brigade". 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 [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. 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. 0000033752 00000 n The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. 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. 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. 0000020971 00000 n [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. There were simple economic facts that led to this. LGMedia. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. [48] Thomas (right) recorded a conversation with a man named Hatcher who Gardner believes was the brother-in-law of a Gippsland squatter named Buntine. 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. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. 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. Our land of migrants, from the very first in their canoes or who even walked here. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. 0000115891 00000 n Perhaps the most revealing example of Gardners influence is Cal Flynns Thicker Than Water, in which McMillan is denounced by his own descendant. McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. 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. Robinsons comments are significant in that he was revealing that escaped convicts were responsible for mistreating the Kurnai. In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. Warrigal Creek Massacre is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. 0000034127 00000 n [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. The statistical discrepancies likely emerged because Macmillan's group killed Aboriginal people at five different locations in the area. [4] Howitts pioneering anthropological work is compelling reading and provides a suitable counter to many modern narratives. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. 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. 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. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. 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. Where I live you can almost point in every direction [to a massacre site], he says. 4 0 obj 6 0 obj <> 0000003570 00000 n They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. % This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. 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]. Hoddinott said that more than 100 Aboriginal people were killed on that day. 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. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. [52] There could not have been a cover-up if human remains were still visible after their arrivals. 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. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. endobj 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. Some of the tale also bears a resemblance to accounts of the Hospital Creek massacre in New South Wales that emerged between 1911 and 1919, in which the survivor was a one-eyed Aborigine. Bells account and the report of the massacre involving the Native Police in April 1845 can be found by simple searches on Trove. The themes in this page may cause distress. Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. [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. This essay appears in Decembers Quadrant. It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. 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. Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. 4 0 obj y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk The area of Nuntin is on the western side of the Avon and was shown in a survey map of 1857. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. 0000008955 00000 n The Warrigal Creek Massacre on Vimeo. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> 0001064309 00000 n 0000012931 00000 n We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. Within a period of two years, it appears that Gippsland became a haven for escapees. Gardner cites other versions of the death of Macalister and the massacre to build his narrative, all based on Gippslander or otherwise post-Dunderdale. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. Robinson was also attempting to do the same, although by a different route. The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Sale, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. In Chapter 1 of Gippsland Massacres, he states: There was a brigade formed by McMillan, which according to Gippslander, was called the Highland Brigade, and mainly consisted of Scotsmen who swore before God and their Queen not to inform on their fellow desperados, and to maintain complete secrecy of the affair in which they were about to participate. 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. You can still browse your favorite events on our [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. Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. 4751, June, 1980. 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 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. [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. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. [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]. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. [15]. Their submission was denied; McMillan was renamed the Monash electorate instead. Events.com Browse is curated to help you find and attend events you love. Most importantly, it does not say whereif Hatchers account is reliable, he was clearly not speaking about Warrigal Creek. Gardner says this was almost certainly McMillan of Nuntin and that Dunderdale was mistaken as the person he was most likely referring to was McMillan of Bushy Park. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b In other words, by coincidence, Robinson and Hatcher arrived in Gippsland at exactly the same time. true /ColorSpace 25 0 R /Intent /Perceptual /SMask 26 0 R /BitsPerComponent 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. 0000016727 00000 n According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. Despite these obvious failings, a legion of dittographers in academia and the media have slavishly repeated and amplified this apocrypha without exposing its errors and falsehoods, or questioning its underlying assertions and lack of evidence. Beyond this, the subject needs a complete reassessment and the instilling of some academic rigour. [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. The stories were republished as The Book of the Bush in 1898. The La Trobe Journal, 86, 23-36. A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. 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. 1 0 obj Please try again. 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 . 0000002733 00000 n 0000024998 00000 n Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. 2 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. [32] Gardners work has been influential and generally unquestioned. [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. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. L4V n)p>WRMXBe*(ru)%]>9,ZUN \p ,_`s=L{5vs{Gw 2ngnBaz0&#Xk+_ q10 m Fri., 27 May 20225:00 pm 8:30 pm AEST, Siteworks Workroom 233 Saxon StreetBrunswick, VIC 3056. 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