% 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. [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. 0000003570 00000 n Fri., 27 May 20225:00 pm 8:30 pm AEST, Siteworks Workroom 233 Saxon StreetBrunswick, VIC 3056. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. 0000017382 00000 n %PDF-1.5 Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. hb``0c`` `01$Q3(f`faPS``e` 0=!E Clq.~Jg` `d``A h! [50] This raises two issues: first, this is a fallacious misuse of the material; Hatcher said the bones might be gathered uphis might be has transmogrified into Gardners were. Balderstone and Irving hope that one day Australia fully recognises the extent of the massacres through a truth and reconciliation commission. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. Establishing the factual basis of this will require in-depth research to uncover any written evidence before Bells account from 1874, as well as archaeological evidence at locations such as Bruthen Creek and Bundalaguah Swamp. These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. This documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. ~]}.>xxs6s;^^`MjEa 5oA/P;uv!MU~86>>iBTju?#Ghnudlnr\;u?pIyo%# if+;J6fLA,4lMMhn]Zrg b_tr>b$3]wG4?mdw # 7Lw/_Mx+47nY;N9Uvs1;. Around 60 Indigenous Australians were killed, and many more were wounded. 4 0 obj Unfortunately, in Gippsland, his diatribe against McMillan has been conflated with issues such as Reconciliation and Black Lives Matter. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. Home; News; Entertainment; Sport; Galleries; Competitions; . 0000007199 00000 n stream 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. The themes in this page may cause distress. For them to do that and come up with a shared name was a major achievement. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. 0000029696 00000 n Convicts were entitled to a daily ration of fresh meat, as were the military and the civilian authorities. 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. Gunaikurnai people have visited the land for years to pay their respects, giving Balderstone some understanding of the pain and intergenerational trauma they still experience. 0001000963 00000 n 0000010708 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. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. "qd]^vc'OontVsl However, Thomas, Hatcher and Meyrick did not mention Warrigal Creek as Gardner claimsand they certainly did not mention McMillan. Use your same username and password to log in and you'll be endobj 'Conspiracy of silence': how sabotaged inquiries fed massacre denials, Telling the truth about Australia's past will be painful but it will be liberating | Karen Mundine and Richard Weston, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. the Warrigal Creek massacre - possibly even a participant in it 10. This included five in the Border Police, one of whom held a ticket-of-leave. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. 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 . Gardner, Peter, 'The Warrigal Creek massacre', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. 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. <>>> 2 0 obj According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. 0000115969 00000 n Elizabeth Balderstone stands next to Warrigal Creek on her farm in Victoria the site of an 1843 massacre. Bells account and the report of the massacre involving the Native Police in April 1845 can be found by simple searches on Trove. Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. I ill not believe anything about aboriginal history that does not have the Indigenous Seal of Approval by the Bruce Pascoe Ministry of Truth. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. [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. 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. 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. 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. It was made to better understand our country's true history. This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. 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. 0 The Chief Protector of Aborigines, George Augustus Robinson (right), noted that the settlers were not the only ones to suffer from the convicts: There is however reason to fear that before the arrival of the Commissioner a large amount of mischief had been inflicted upon the original Inhabitants by the lawless and depraved who had infested the port from Van Diemens Land and the Middle Districts [present-day New South Wales] and that the instance recorded (if reports be true) is not the only one in which the Blacks have suffered. ]V)cxN:*e%{ZXi8C -[Y1d-ZZ. 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. McMillan made the first export of livestock to Van Diemens Land in 1842 and the trade continued until 1868 when it was halted by a tariff war between Victoria and Tasmania. We acknowledge that in our past, as in most nations, bad things have happened. 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. [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). I have seen somewhere that this version of the. In July 1843, a European named Ronald Macalister was killed by First Nations men near Port Albert, in Victoria. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. Its part of our life and its not that I dont stop and think about it. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. 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. 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 cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. 0000030698 00000 n They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. 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. 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 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. Smith Street and Albert Street, Warragul, 3820, VIC, AU. Historical. And forward if you like. 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. The murder of his nephew gave him both a professional and a family interest in chastising the criminals, and he soon organised a party to look for them. GLaWAC has been given permission to screen the Warrigal Creek Massacre film at our office at Forestec. 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. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. [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. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. This special screening is being hosted by the Healesville Local Aboriginal Network (LAN), Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association (HICSA), Yarra . 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. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. Captain Charles Tyers RN arrived in Gippsland in January 1844 as the Commissioner for Crown Lands. But I wish to look forward, unimpeded by SJWs. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. startxref 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. In Through Foreign Eyes, Gardner quoted the journal of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines. [10], When the squatters began occupying Kurnai territory with their herds of sheep and cattle, conflict soon followed. [40] Otherwise, he has no involvement in the story. [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. [4] Howitts pioneering anthropological work is compelling reading and provides a suitable counter to many modern narratives. 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.. endstream Film Screening The Warrigal Creek Massacre This country has a hidden history that is not widely acknowledged. 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. 2151 Gardner concludes that McMillan's group initially killed two family groups at Warrigal Creek waterhole and then a few days later killed another 60 people at the mouth of Warrigal Creek, then killing three other groups at Freshwater Creek, Gammon Creek, and Red Hill. One man was killed with thirteen spears, his body was mutilated, and his arms and legs were removedthe Kurnai were cannibals. 0000001766 00000 n It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. [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. 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. Please try again. [52] There could not have been a cover-up if human remains were still visible after their arrivals. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. 0000030150 00000 n Within a period of two years, it appears that Gippsland became a haven for escapees. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. 8 /Filter /FlateDecode >> %PDF-1.4 % Wayne, a very valuable and comprehensive article. Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). 0001021671 00000 n L4V n)p>WRMXBe*(ru)%]>9,ZUN \p ,_`s=L{5vs{Gw 2ngnBaz0&#Xk+_ q10 m 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. 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. searching events in no time. @7k_|F_j}t'J'fu_}"Y5Xgx{ps:KQb#wOQ:/[]6Hy LGMedia. [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. You can still browse your favorite events on our stream One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. The Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. { 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 [2], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}374014S 1463957E / 37.67056S 146.66583E / -37.67056; 146.66583, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 01:43, List of massacres of Indigenous Australians, "Victoria's Deadly & Proud campaign remembers Indigenous victims of Warrigal Creek massacre in South Gippsland", "Living on a massacre site: home truths and trauma at Warrigal Creek", "Victoria to introduce Australia's first truth-telling process to address Indigenous injustices", "Victoria to establish truth and justice process as part of Aboriginal treaty process", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warrigal_Creek_Massacre&oldid=1141638012, "The Settling of Gippsland - A Regional History", by Patrick Morgan, published by Gippsland Municipalities Association, Traralgon, 1997. So far, this has been lacking. 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. 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. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. 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. endobj In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. No reason was given for the murder. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. 0000002096 00000 n Light refreshments will be available. 0000115891 00000 n This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. Perhaps the most revealing example of Gardners influence is Cal Flynns Thicker Than Water, in which McMillan is denounced by his own descendant. The question posed at the start of this article was whether Gardners Warrigal Creek massacre story should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the . 5 0 obj Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. Like Dunderdale and Thomas, he did not mention a mythical Highland Brigade and he was clearly not constrained by Gardners imaginary secrecy. %%EOF 29 May 2018. This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. 2, pp.20-21, [9] Cox, Kenneth (1973) Angus McMillan: Pathfinder, Published by the author. During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. He was shot through the foot and was so injured that he was called Club Foot.[39]. 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. Bells account is matter-of-fact and he did not name McMillan or any other person. 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. The men were easy prey for the Kurnai and by mid-1843, four had been murdered. << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 7 0 R 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. % Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. 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 Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. 0000020785 00000 n Much has been written about the massacre of Aboriginal people that is believed to have occurred at Warrigal Creek in Gippsland in 1843. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. Continue here for the tools you already love, but be sure to explore everything else [32] Gardners work has been influential and generally unquestioned. 0000020901 00000 n [citation needed] The group of Gaelic-speaking Scotsmen was known as the "Highland Brigade". Light refreshments will be available. The historical record of this conflict up to 1843 is sparse and consists of just a few newspaper reports. 0000005571 00000 n 1 0 obj An unexpected error occurred. There were simple economic facts that led to this. endobj Is there any aspect of our history that has now not been corrupted by the SJWs? If you would like to participate, visit the project page. [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. <> >> Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 . Probably even as a child I just sensed something its a really spiritual place, she says. 0000034566 00000 n It beggars belief that it was accepted as a completely reliable historical source. 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. Could you help us please? [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. 0000001456 00000 n He was joined by detachments of the Border and Native Police. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. 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. The La Trobe Journal, 86, 23-36. qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 endobj 0001064365 00000 n McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. [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. [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. trailer 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. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. 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. The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. 0001031115 00000 n [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]. 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. [30] Escapees living outside the law would therefore have posed a dire threat to the Kurnai. [citation needed], A witness, Willy Hoddinott, wrote the following in 1925:[3], "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. 0000024560 00000 n This documentary captures a story from Victoria, however there were similar stories as the waves of colonisation swept across the country. Balderstones daughter Alice Irving calls the site a powerful place. /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> %PDF-1.3 Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary This documentary will be shown at the Regent Theatre in Yarram on 10 July at 7.30pm during Naidoc Week. The next day, while on horseback, he was speared through the neck from behind. But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. 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. Warrigal Creek Massacre: A Truth-telling Documentary. 0000002765 00000 n To those who came by jet plane yesterday. People need to feel that their voices and stories are heard and we need to listen with humility because theres not just emotional hurt there, but also terrible physical pain, Irving says. 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. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . 0000024533 00000 n 0001064425 00000 n [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. 0000016727 00000 n Purchase tickets, Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. 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]. Quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a shared name was a boy at time. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 1889. 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