Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. 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. 0001031115 00000 n Is there any aspect of our history that has now not been corrupted by the SJWs? 0000034566 00000 n Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. The Warrigal Creek Massacre on Vimeo. Part III: Other Versions of the Massacre Story. Inspire employees with compelling live and on-demand video experiences. The Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. NAIDOC Week 2019. This documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. This changed with the arrival of Tyers, who told La Trobe: The run-away Convicts, and other bad characters with which the District was infested a few months ago have, I believe been nearly all driven out by the system of surveillance pursued by the Border Police, acting under my instructions.[29]. It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. [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). He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the Brigade from one camp to another. [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. 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Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. 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. In my research for Bitter Harvest, I could find no reference, in original sources, to The Highland Brigade, established, according to the Gardner version of history, to seek out and exterminate blacks. Purchase tickets, Happy New Year to all. xref Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. 0000033752 00000 n 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. Following the murder, Lachlan Macalister wrote a letter to Governor Sir George Gipps via the Sydney Morning Herald in which he implicated the governor for the state of anarchy in Gippsland due to the lack of official protection. 0000001456 00000 n 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. Your email address will not be published. 0001000963 00000 n *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? 0000008955 00000 n 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. They say they want to tell the story widely, and take down the monuments to McMillan the butcher 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. Second, Gardners narrative is based on the assertion that the massacre and Angus McMillan are synonymous, but he has produced no evidence whatsoever to implicate McMillan. Gardner claims it is a secondary source but it is, at best, folk history that he has embroidered with his own fiction about McMillan. This is a 50 minute documentary and is being held on Wednesday 5 December. 16 0 obj 0000016727 00000 n Runaways from the settlers, and others have located themselves in some vacated huts on the Tara River, rendering it dangerous for passengers to approach this neighbourhood Your Excellency cannot for the sake of humanity, good government, well-being, and the safety of this district, much longer withhold from us the protection of those laws which we have a right to demand at your Excellencys hands [21]. 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 Frustrated with the hidden history of the massacre, the makers of this 50-minute documentary sought oral histories and combed through archival works to capture and relay the truth of Australias violent past. [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. ?6m-^a_DD/UJ[ 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. Gardner prefaced the following quote from Gippslander stating that after the murder of Macalister, An avenging party set out under the leadership of Angus McMillan , 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 a breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. [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. e8 m-T>6R'WrqPWUVe)0'Yn1UF]2|SOWS)^h|6xy. 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. 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. Nous et nos partenaires utilisons des cookies et des outils similaires afin d'assurer le bon fonctionnement de nos services, d'amliorer la fonctionnalit de notre site Web, de comprendre comment les visiteurs utilisent nos services afin que nous puissions amliorer nos performances, et des fins . Historical. Welcome to you all., Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine Starting at $88.00 a year. 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. The stories were republished as The Book of the Bush in 1898. It is about the importance of truth- telling. [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. In Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. Presumably he had reasons for both, but he did not say why and he did not reveal the source of his information. 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.. The aim of this article is to examine Gardners interpretation of the Warrigal Creek massacre story and his accusations against McMillan. 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. 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. 4751, June, 1980. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. 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? Thu Gardner, Peter, 'The Warrigal Creek massacre', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. 0000003570 00000 n Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. endobj The other forty-six convicts were employed on the squatting runs. [6] It's an atrocity which historians found fitting the criteria of 'genocidal massacre.' [3] This land was never ceded. T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo 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. << /Type /Page /Parent 3 0 R /Resources 6 0 R /Contents 4 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] 0000011274 00000 n 2 0 obj According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. 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. The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. Thats not to say they dont exist, but if you have knowledge of such I would be grateful to know it. [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. 0000029696 00000 n 6 0 obj An unexpected error occurred. Here are some resources for further research. 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. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. 0000024227 00000 n 0000003041 00000 n Robinsons comments are significant in that he was revealing that escaped convicts were responsible for mistreating the Kurnai. stream 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. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. [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). qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 His reports correlate with the newspaper accounts in describing the violent state of Gippsland. >> /ExtGState << /Gs2 23 0 R /Gs1 24 0 R >> /Font << /TT2 11 0 R /TT3 12 0 R Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. 0000010851 00000 n One man was killed with thirteen spears, his body was mutilated, and his arms and legs were removedthe Kurnai were cannibals. 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