Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. Gardner claimsincorrectlythat Thomas was aware of the circumstances of the Warrigal Creek massacre, as he had recorded the details of it on two separate occasions. [4] Howitts pioneering anthropological work is compelling reading and provides a suitable counter to many modern narratives. Probably even as a child I just sensed something its a really spiritual place, she says. 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. [45] Hoddinotts tale thus appears to contain generic elements from the period. 0001064309 00000 n [23] Inwards correspondence Tyers to La Trobe 44/1367 p.5 PROV, [24] Port Phillip Gazette 21 May 1842, p.3, [25] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 45/324 PROV, [27] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 46/219 PROV, [28] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 44/2112, PROV; Port Phillip Patriot 12 August 1839, p.4, [29] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 44/1367, p.4, PROV, [30] Port Phillip Patriot 12 August 1839, p.4, [31] Gardner, P. D. (1994) Through Foreign Eyes, Ngarak Press, Ensay, p.45, [32]Gardner (1993) p.58; (1990) Our Murdering Founding Father, 2nd Edition, Ngarak Press, p.28, [33] The Guardian 6 March 2019; 8 March 2019; Gippsland Times 16 June 2020, [34] Gardner (1993) pp 6-7; (2015) Some Random Notes on Massacres 2000-2015 (on-line essay). To secure your seat go to. << /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 293 /Height 146 /Interpolate Personally, it,s hard to know who to believe, such is my lack of confidence. Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. The Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. endobj 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. "qd]^vc'OontVsl Messrs. Pearson and Cunninghame have been the latest sufferers by those cannibals; it is not only the stock they kill we feel the loss of, but running the remainder off their runs, and the expense the proprietors are put to in collecting their cattle, and procuring guns and ammunition for everyone engaged in their employment.[22]. 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. Gardner, Peter, 'The Warrigal Creek massacre', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. 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. 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. Peter Gardner[1]. 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. 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. Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. 0000001456 00000 n Elizabeth Balderstone stands next to Warrigal Creek on her farm in Victoria the site of an 1843 massacre. They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. But I wish to look forward, unimpeded by SJWs. Click here to subscribe. [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. 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. Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. [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). <<6C2049F009130640B9B98E7F057F832E>]/Prev 1164416/XRefStm 1766>> The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. [2] Some historians assert that the number of 60 is an exaggeration, despite the witness accounts. 0001031115 00000 n 0000003041 00000 n 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. 0000116911 00000 n In the revised edition of Gippsland Massacres, Gardner reinvented the account, claiming the bones were carried away from the [Warrigal] Creek by the cartload. 0000008955 00000 n 0000001766 00000 n The theme for Reconciliation Week 2018 is 'Don't keep history a mystery' Learn - Share - Grow. from <> There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. 5 0 obj Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. Your email address will not be published. This provides a contrast to Gardners analysis, which is based largely on a story from a schoolchildrens magazine from 1925. [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]. 0000030150 00000 n [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. 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 Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. 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. 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. [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. The other forty-six convicts were employed on the squatting runs. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. 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. And forward if you like. endobj 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. 4 0 obj They will be immediately recommended to interested users. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. 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]. 0000020901 00000 n [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. 0000024227 00000 n Continue here for the tools you already love, but be sure to explore everything else 12 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. )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 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. Please call Drouin Library for more information 56 251564. 0000034566 00000 n 0000115969 00000 n I learned a lot I had not previously known, and am still thinking about. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b 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 . In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. Bells account and the report of the massacre involving the Native Police in April 1845 can be found by simple searches on Trove. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the Brigade from one camp to another. >> Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. 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. e8 m-T>6R'WrqPWUVe)0'Yn1UF]2|SOWS)^h|6xy. [13], The squatting runs were large tracts of unfenced landMacalister had 100 square mileswhere livestock was left in charge of shepherds and hut keepers whose job it was to tend the livestock and prevent it from straying. The current awareness of the Warrigal Creek massacre stems largely from the writing of the self-published historian Peter Gardner, who contends that his work represents currently accepted history. [22] Sydney Morning Herald 15 April 1844, p. 4; the article appears to have Lachlan Macalisters turn of phrase. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. The Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. 0000024998 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. Gunaikurnai people continue to visit the land to pay their respects. 0000117321 00000 n the Warrigal Creek massacre - possibly even a participant in it 10. 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. This documentary captures a story from Victoria, however there were similar stories as the waves of colonisation swept across the country. This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. 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. My late husbands family had owned the property since the late 1880s and my father-in-law was a very passionate historian, she says. Facebook. This documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. 0000020559 00000 n [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. 0001064365 00000 n searching events in no time. <>>> Please note and use or adapt the following words. 0000007199 00000 n [10], When the squatters began occupying Kurnai territory with their herds of sheep and cattle, conflict soon followed. 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. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. Voice.Treaty.Truth. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . According to Dunderdale, Donald Macalister fired at some Kurnai without any provocation. Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. stream We are here to help! This land was never ceded. [33] His work was cited widely in a motion to remove monuments to McMillan put before the Wellington Shire Council in June 2020. It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. The Australian reported in August: The Prince George touched at Port Albert on the 25th ultimo, and reports that the Agenoria is taking in cattle there, the captain of which reported the blacks to be in a very riotous state. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. 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. 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. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. endobj stream 0000005571 00000 n This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 01:43. Film Screening The Warrigal Creek Massacre This country has a hidden history that is not widely acknowledged. [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. Smith Street and Albert Street, Warragul, 3820, VIC, AU. Gardner claims it is a secondary source but it is, at best, folk history that he has embroidered with his own fiction about McMillan. It was made to better understand our country's true history. ?6m-^a_DD/UJ[ They did not find any Bunurong so they ransacked a squatters station instead. 0000020785 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. 0000115891 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. The area of Nuntin is on the western side of the Avon and was shown in a survey map of 1857. Launch date: Wednesday 4 AprilStratford Courthouse TheatreFree entry but bookings essentialRegister via Eventbrite http://bit.ly/2sTmWsCAbout the filmWhen An. Warrigal Creek Massacre is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. endobj Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. x]xG)mIq$hpwwR+VKqPMps^63.ffv>Y ?hiO#'FZ@&.JGr4O,D5nHEK{GDs ,2fspcd88qpB[V,4~nfrpe8,$Y}i{rq]v9sl{3g &6mBRii&"0k2dZNPR5foHWJcJWLlel+_0d)[Vs[ ])[UJT+Wd41 Purchase tickets, [30] Escapees living outside the law would therefore have posed a dire threat to the Kurnai. The blacks were found encamped near a waterhole at Gammon Creek, and those who were shot were thrown into it, to the number, it was said, of about sixty, men, women, and children; but this was probably an exaggeration.[57]. His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. 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. endobj Those who came in chains, those who fled famine, those who fled or survived genocide and war and its consequences. There is now a documentary on the Warrigal Creek Massacre, near Woodside, north of Yarram. 0000014051 00000 n 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. 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]. 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. An unexpected error occurred. These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. [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 recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. Home News Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. [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. As fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot.. A trip to Gipps Land in April 1843 The Courier 23 June 1843, p.4, [8] Caldow, W (2012) Gippsland and the Van Diemens Land Livestock Trade: The Log of the Dew Drop 1847-49, The Great Circle, Vol 34, No. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. 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. We are yet to have a complete understanding of Gippsland in the 1840s. 0000017382 00000 n 8 /Filter /FlateDecode >> Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. Many people accept the massacre as a matter of fact, as a truism. 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. 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. He wrote a number of reports on the state of Gippsland to his superior, Charles La Trobe, the Superintendent of the Port Phillip District. 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. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. 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. 0000023940 00000 n 1 0 obj It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. 16 0 obj 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]. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. 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. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. 0000003620 00000 n 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. /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> Wayne, a very valuable and comprehensive article. Light refreshments will be available. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. startxref The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. MAR 0000020673 00000 n There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. The Scottish colonist and pastoralist, Angus McMillan, led a group of around 20 colonists to attack and kill several groups of Aboriginal people across a number of days. The other was a little older; he made his escape up the creek by swimming and diving. { L{ c$Nb`6`4` ` DwG'g5A$Y&e&i 64*6Cs!k >/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[7 84]/Length 22/Size 91/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream [15]. Happy New Year to all. 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. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. 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. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. 0 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. To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. 0000002096 00000 n 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. [11] The violent response from the Kurnai was the same as that meted out to their tribal enemies when defending their territory. y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk But we strive to be one people, equality of opportunity for all, no privilege by birth, truly one nation. It beggars belief that it was accepted as a completely reliable historical source. 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. This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. 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. I ill not believe anything about aboriginal history that does not have the Indigenous Seal of Approval by the Bruce Pascoe Ministry of Truth. 0000117691 00000 n %PDF-1.3 2151 It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. In October that year, ninety-seven Kurnai warriors made a revenge raid into Bunurong territory. Bunurong territory and Lisa Gye to experience Vimeo in all of its glory it was accepted a. 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