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. 0001064365 00000 n 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 But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. Their submission was denied; McMillan was renamed the Monash electorate instead. It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. 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. No reason was given for the murder. 2 0 obj trailer 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. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. Gunaikurnai people continue to visit the land to pay their respects. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] Personally, it,s hard to know who to believe, such is my lack of confidence. 0000000016 00000 n [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. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. endobj He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. 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. In the revised edition of Gippsland Massacres, Gardner reinvented the account, claiming the bones were carried away from the [Warrigal] Creek by the cartload. The other forty-six convicts were employed on the squatting runs. y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk The Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. 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. But I wish to look forward, unimpeded by SJWs. Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. Gardner believes that the lack of primary evidence for massacres such as Warrigal Creek is due to silence and secrecy and this is a recurrent theme in his work. endstream 0000012931 00000 n [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. However, Thomas, Hatcher and Meyrick did not mention Warrigal Creek as Gardner claimsand they certainly did not mention McMillan. 91 58 Peter Gardner[1]. [citation needed] The group of Gaelic-speaking Scotsmen was known as the "Highland Brigade". [11] The violent response from the Kurnai was the same as that meted out to their tribal enemies when defending their territory. The Gippslander account mentions the Highland Brigade and a death toll of 100 to 150, but McMillans involvement, Scotsmen, the swearing to God and the Queen, and secrecy, are entirely Gardners creation. The validity of the will remains a problem. Gardners fiction about McMillan, his misquoting of source material, and his reliance on an unattributed, anonymous and generic story truly relegates his Warrigal Creek narrative to the realms of the apocryphal. MAR [32] Gardners work has been influential and generally unquestioned. 0000021061 00000 n Bells account is matter-of-fact and he did not name McMillan or any other person. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. To secure your seat go to. It was made to better understand our country's true history. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. To discount Macalisters involvement, Gardner states there is no proof he was in Gippsland before 1848. To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. endobj There were simple economic facts that led to this. 0 Click here to subscribe. Purchase tickets, 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. )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 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. 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. He was shot through the foot and was so injured that he was called Club Foot.[39]. qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 0000030698 00000 n 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. Among the most shocking is the Jack Smith massacre (Warrigal Creek, Victoria) in 1843, where about 150-170 Brataualang people were killed over 5 days in retaliation for the killing of one single personRonald Macalister, the nephew of a local squatter. Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. % 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. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 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. Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. Please call Drouin Library for more information 56 251564. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. This provides a contrast to Gardners analysis, which is based largely on a story from a schoolchildrens magazine from 1925. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. 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. <> Historical. 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. 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. 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 wrote a number of reports on the state of Gippsland to his superior, Charles La Trobe, the Superintendent of the Port Phillip District. 0000002096 00000 n To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. Most importantly, it does not say whereif Hatchers account is reliable, he was clearly not speaking about Warrigal Creek. << /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 293 /Height 146 /Interpolate It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. I have seen somewhere that this version of the. hb``0c`` `01$Q3(f`faPS``e` 0=!E Clq.~Jg` `d``A h! It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. 0000017382 00000 n During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. 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. 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. <> Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. He added that one of the Kurnai involved in the murder survived and often re-enacted his part in the ambush. [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. 0000024227 00000 n According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. Events.com has to offer. News; Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. The timing of this record is important because it was made after two of the three searches for a white woman allegedly held captive by the Kurnai. The newspapers and Charles Tyerss reports indicate that attacks by the Kurnai continued in 1844 and 1845; they did not end at Warrigal Creek in 1843. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . 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. [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. [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. 0000020971 00000 n hbbbd`b`` K Many Bunurong joined the police and used the guise of their role to extract vengeance on the Kurnai. 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. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. 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]. 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. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. 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. Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. 0000003041 00000 n 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 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. 0000033752 00000 n The answer is in three parts. The Author at Warrigal Creek 2016. Many people accept the massacre as a matter of fact, as a truism. Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. 0000023940 00000 n This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. [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. Smith Street and Albert Street, Warragul, 3820, VIC, AU. 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. The stories were republished as The Book of the Bush in 1898. They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. 6az Q";cM;|?)/ Bg~VK7QVK_6 +K}\\&h"DmWK+^>Pnu"8H8@sF1jO-@g?XjGs=2]v'x9y[6p X &.-Yl;;]+/[r=w(\QwG SDB?#86mXpqrOzX\R++QkEfz75Br,=t'F4_]Ug@dNq{":Q7 &DvB )vBqKwbm%aM!._aiaekE)hc_9lujzR10IrR--6HWXSA[Wd{DS#~}wDvenr,rFU-}aOe(d}b Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. 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. 0000020901 00000 n [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. 0001000963 00000 n 2151 T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo Some themes may be unpalatable, including tribal warfare, the murderous role of the Native Police, and the role of convicts as both slave labour and perpetratorsthey are part of the historical record but not always part of the written history. The other was a little older; he made his escape up the creek by swimming and diving. [10], When the squatters began occupying Kurnai territory with their herds of sheep and cattle, conflict soon followed. The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. %PDF-1.3 An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. { L{ c$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 These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. [44] The word colourful may have been more appropriate. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. Your email address will not be published. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. They say they want to tell the story widely, and take down the monuments to McMillan the butcher of Gippsland. 0000024533 00000 n McMillan is not implicated in any of the material cited as evidence against him. Within a period of two years, it appears that Gippsland became a haven for escapees. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. Where I live you can almost point in every direction [to a massacre site], he says. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. She worries Australia is still not ready to listen. The Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). 2020, Cnr. The newspapers indicate that the murder was not an isolated event and occurred within a wider context of anarchy and violence involving the Kurnai and the convicts. 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. An unexpected error occurred. [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. 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