This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. 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, Peter, 'The Warrigal Creek massacre', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. [52] There could not have been a cover-up if human remains were still visible after their arrivals. 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]. 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]. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. 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 . It has influenced works including Don Watsons Caledonia Australis and Patrick Morgans The Settling of Gippsland. 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. It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. 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. Food and drink refreshments will be offered (meat, vegetarian and gluten free options available). 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 I ill not believe anything about aboriginal history that does not have the Indigenous Seal of Approval by the Bruce Pascoe Ministry of Truth. First though, it is necessary to establish the circumstances that led to the European settlement of Gippsland and the resulting conflict with the indigenous Kurnai people, which is the root of the massacre story. Gary Foley's Koori History Website http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/indexb.html Kevin Gilbert, Because a . [58] Apart from the perverse logic of this claim, it is factually incorrect. 4 0 obj These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. Your email address will not be published. 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]. 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]. 3 0 obj 0000001936 00000 n 6 0 obj They did not find any Bunurong so they ransacked a squatters station instead. 16 0 obj Advice: This page does not contain images of people who have died. Voice.Treaty.Truth. 91 0 obj <> endobj This is a 50 minute documentary and is being held on Wednesday 5 December. At the end of 1845, Tyers wrote a follow-up report stating: since the return of the Native Police to Head Quarters the depredations of the Aborigines of the District on the property of the Settlers, including horses as well as horned stock, have increased to an alarming extentand that I cannot at present suggest any other means of prevention, than the continuing service of the Native Police.[27]. Bookings free, but essential. McMillans employer, Captain Lachlan Macalister, described the squatters as legally authorised occupiers of Crown lands. The Commissariat let annual tenders for the supply of fresh meat and other staples. 0000010851 00000 n 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. Your email address will not be published. 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. Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. Peter Gardner deserves recognition for highlighting the reality of conflict in early Gippsland. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. While the murder was well documented in contemporary newspaper accounts, the reports also indicate that by mid-1843, Gippsland was in a state of disarray. Emotional articles in the Guardian in 2019 parroted the denunciation of McMillan, as did the Gippsland Times in June 2020. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. He was joined by detachments of the Border and Native Police. But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors. Gardners evidence for Angus McMillans involvement in the Warrigal Creek massacre consists of a story written for The Gap school magazine in 1925 by William Hoddinott under the pseudonym of Gippslander. It may be student work out of Swinburne. 8 /Filter /FlateDecode >> Use your same username and password to log in and you'll be [54] Meyrick arrived in Gippsland in 1845 so he was not a witness to anything before that date. "qd]^vc'OontVsl 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. [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. In other words, by coincidence, Robinson and Hatcher arrived in Gippsland at exactly the same time. As Bell indicates the early 1840s certainly were . 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. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. 0000000016 00000 n 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. 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 theme for Reconciliation Week 2018 is 'Don't keep history a mystery' Learn - Share - Grow. Gardner claimed in June 2020 that Meyrick gave a death toll of about 150 for Warrigal Creek, which he did not. [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). The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. In 1845, Tyers reported on the Aborigines, stating: In the early part of 1843as I have been informed, some of the Corner Inlet tribe were occasionally employed by the few Settlers at Port Albert in carrying fire wood and in other light work for which they generally received payment in flour & cbut since the unprovoked murder of Mr Ronald Macalister by them at Port Albert, about that time, they have not been seen in the neighbourhood. 0000116911 00000 n 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. Tyerss Convict Return for 1844 shows that convict labour was an integral part of the squatter economy. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 01:43. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. endobj startxref << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 7 0 R %PDF-1.4 % 4751, June, 1980. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. Can only find the trailer. The men were easy prey for the Kurnai and by mid-1843, four had been murdered. ?6m-^a_DD/UJ[ Facebook. Production and research by Danielle Bowen, Jonathan Boadle, Jakeb Fair, Alex Owsianka, Don Sheil and Ben Winnell. [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. However, he has not included a much earlier reference to the massacre. It was, of course, impossible to identify any blackfellow concerned in the outrage, and therefore atonement must be made by the tribe. 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. An unexpected error occurred. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . [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. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. 5|ya"R=:(O)Y?vM=u(f!ygaR@Dfx*qVhCqE CML@Ishk4 C&YE$A9M#~gyHN#,H^(eC:Z;o=ni!|"V?bx6c49Y+b FyELe_`GGWy&2SpKeQPZY4)OEe 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. I learned a lot I had not previously known, and am still thinking about. 2151 148 0 obj <>stream McMillan is mentioned once by Gippslander, where he is supposed to have caught Macalisters horse on the road to Sale (which did not exist then). 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 Events.com Browse is curated to help you find and attend events you love. There were simple economic facts that led to this. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. 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. 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. No reason was given for the murder. [37] Again, no proof is offered. Chapters 6 and 7 of Gippsland Massacres retell the story. We are yet to have a complete understanding of Gippsland in the 1840s. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. 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. >> 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. Dunderdale states: Lachlan Macalister had a long experience in dealing with blackfellows and bushrangers; he had been a captain in the army and an officer of the border police. Where I live you can almost point in every direction [to a massacre site], he says. The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. 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 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 Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. To implicate McMillan, Gardner imputed words and meaning into this story that are simply not there, rendering his narrative both perplexing and questionable. 5 0 obj 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 0001003043 00000 n Rather, his involvement is presented as a fait accompli. 0000010708 00000 n From 1839, Angus McMillan tried on numerous occasions to reach Corner Inlet from the Monaro District and finally succeeded in February 1841 when he reached the tidal bank of the Albert River. MAR [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. Required fields are marked *. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. [2] His work has indeed permeated academic and public discourse, but it contains many unproven assertions that undermine his main premise, that McMillan was responsible for the massacre. 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 . The murder of Ranald Macalister may have been the pretext for an attack on the Kurnai at Warrigal Creek or Gammon Creek but this is not borne out by the contemporary historical record. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. [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. Robinsons comments are significant in that he was revealing that escaped convicts were responsible for mistreating the Kurnai. One thing is clear from his work: the Kurnai men were warriors. In Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. [2] Some historians assert that the number of 60 is an exaggeration, despite the witness accounts. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. [17], This story was repeated in several of the colonial newspapers but there does not seem to have been any follow-up reports. 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. share events with your friends and make the most out of every experience. 0000023940 00000 n Convicts under the control of the penal system in the Port Phillip District and elsewhere were notorious for their crimes against the Aborigines. News; Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. 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. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] 0000008955 00000 n Thu Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. hb``0c`` `01$Q3(f`faPS``e` 0=!E Clq.~Jg` `d``A h! 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. { 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 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. 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. You can still browse your favorite events on our 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. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. They returned in triumph with flesh from the Kurnai they had killed. [45] Hoddinotts tale thus appears to contain generic elements from the period. [citation needed] The group of Gaelic-speaking Scotsmen was known as the "Highland Brigade". <<6C2049F009130640B9B98E7F057F832E>]/Prev 1164416/XRefStm 1766>> 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. true /ColorSpace 25 0 R /Intent /Perceptual /SMask 26 0 R /BitsPerComponent 27 May - 3 June. 12/02/2019. He calls them The McMillan Massacres. Sell more tickets through digital marketing. Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. 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. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. [38], I knew two blacks who, though wounded, came out of that hole alive. a federal electorate was renamed that year. 0000021061 00000 n [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. 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. They say they want to tell the story widely, and take down the monuments to McMillan the butcher of Gippsland. Welcome to you all., Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine Starting at $88.00 a year. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. Continue here for the tools you already love, but be sure to explore everything else 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. 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. His body was mutilated and stripped, and it was found the next day by an Aboriginal boy in his employment. Bookings free, but essential. endobj If the problem persists contact Customer Support. 0000020673 00000 n [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. In July 1843, a European named Ronald Macalister was killed by First Nations men near Port Albert, in Victoria. Robinson was also attempting to do the same, although by a different route. Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. [23] To put this in context, crimes against livestock carried a heavy penalty. Many Bunurong joined the police and used the guise of their role to extract vengeance on the Kurnai. He was accompanied by George Henry Haydon, who published an account of their journey, which is also well known. Bells account and the report of the massacre involving the Native Police in April 1845 can be found by simple searches on Trove. Light refreshments will be available. Like Dunderdale and Thomas, he did not mention a mythical Highland Brigade and he was clearly not constrained by Gardners imaginary secrecy. 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. <>>> They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. [6], In contrast, there is an implicit assumption in Gardners work that the Kurnai were passive victims of European violence, but this does not do them justice. His reports correlate with the newspaper accounts in describing the violent state of Gippsland. This letter indicates that the Kurnai were still harrying the squatters the year after the massacre is believed to have occurredthere was conflict with the Kurnai before and after the murder of Macalister. One man was killed with thirteen spears, his body was mutilated, and his arms and legs were removedthe Kurnai were cannibals. endobj 91 58 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. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. [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). 0000024227 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]. 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. 0000030698 00000 n Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. [35] This simplistic reductionism obscures the complexity of Gippslands early history, evident in his rejection of Robinsons observations on the escaped convicts. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. 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. To those who came by jet plane yesterday. 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. Conflict in early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives 'The Creek... 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