% The historical record of this conflict up to 1843 is sparse and consists of just a few newspaper reports. [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. 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. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. [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. My late husbands family had owned the property since the late 1880s and my father-in-law was a very passionate historian, she says. Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. [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. 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. Their submission was denied; McMillan was renamed the Monash electorate instead. Much has been written about the massacre of Aboriginal people that is believed to have occurred at Warrigal Creek in Gippsland in 1843. [3] Their customs and society were studied in detail by Alfred W. Howitt, but due to violence and the effects of disease, alcohol and the mission system, much traditional knowledge had already been lost by the time he began recording information in the mid-1860s. 0000003570 00000 n Wayne, a very valuable and comprehensive article. 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. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. Gunaikurnai people continue to visit the land to pay their respects. 0000007199 00000 n 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]. 0001000963 00000 n One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. He stated: Mr. Ranold McAlister, nephew of the allegorical author, was dragged off his horse, and cruelly murdered, on the township of Alberton, his head being so totally disfigured that his countenance could not be recognised among even his most intimate friends, by these harmless, innocent denizens of the wild of Gipps Land . 0001003043 00000 n 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]. 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. 4 0 obj 0001064309 00000 n Light refreshments will be available. Buntines Bruthen Creek run was several miles and several squatting runs to the west of Warrigal Creek. 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. 0000020559 00000 n We are yet to have a complete understanding of Gippsland in the 1840s. 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? 0000010708 00000 n The theme for Reconciliation Week 2018 is 'Don't keep history a mystery' Learn - Share - Grow. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. << /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 293 /Height 146 /Interpolate 0001064365 00000 n Events.com Browse is curated to help you find and attend events you love. He also claimed this appeared to be part of a cover-up due to the arrival of Tyers or Robinson. [55] The murder of Macalister may have marked a turning point in which the Europeans went on the offensive. The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Sale, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. It was, of course, impossible to identify any blackfellow concerned in the outrage, and therefore atonement must be made by the tribe. [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. Click here to subscribe. In October that year, ninety-seven Kurnai warriors made a revenge raid into Bunurong territory. Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. 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. 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 %PDF-1.5 0000021061 00000 n In July 1843, a man named Ronald Macalister was killed by Aboriginal men near Port Albert, on the coast of Victoria. Events.com has to offer. 4751, June, 1980. @7k_|F_j}t'J'fu_}"Y5Xgx{ps:KQb#wOQ:/[]6Hy 91 0 obj <> endobj Peter Gardner[1]. I welcome you all to (insert place name). Third, Gardners narrative is constructed around a story written for schoolchildren in 1925, a story that could at best be considered as folk history. 0000011274 00000 n This essay appears in Decembers Quadrant. Welcome to you all., Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine Starting at $88.00 a year. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. They proposed a different name: Bunjileene-Purrine. 0000002903 00000 n While we are not personally responsible we continue to live different experiences from these events; some of privilege, some of disadvantage, some unknowing. a federal electorate was renamed that year. Massacre [ edit] The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? The themes in this page may cause distress. %PDF-1.4 % [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 Van Diemens Land convict economy provided the economic motives for the European settlement of Gippsland, which in turn led to conflict with the Kurnai. 0000017382 00000 n [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. 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. During this time he collected information for stories that were published in the magazine Austral Light. 0000023940 00000 n /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. 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 . 91 58 Bookings free, but essential. 0001021671 00000 n Can only find the trailer. ktp33#`r[vhJ hR,t%434qrZQ7z 0000002096 00000 n Warrigal Creek Massacre is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. Happy New Year to all. 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 area of Nuntin is on the western side of the Avon and was shown in a survey map of 1857. Truth-telling about the wrongs of the past is necessary for reconciliation. endobj [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. 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]. 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 . Howitt noted that the Kurnai killed by the Europeans were mostly, though not all, fighting men of the tribe. 0000015443 00000 n 0000024227 00000 n 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. Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. 12/02/2019. According to Tyers, at least fifty Kurnai were killed by the Native Police and other Aborigines attached to the search parties. The other forty-six convicts were employed on the squatting runs. These stories contain the earliest known account of a massacre as revenge for the death of Macalister. 0000115891 00000 n This is a 50 minute documentary and is being held on Wednesday 5 December. 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 . [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. L4V n)p>WRMXBe*(ru)%]>9,ZUN \p ,_`s=L{5vs{Gw 2ngnBaz0&#Xk+_ q10 m 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. Gardner claims his work is partly political and partly moralistic; he disdains objectivity and describes his politics as left. An unexpected error occurred. 2 0 obj 0000117321 00000 n In July 1844 he wrote, I regret however to observe that the depredations of the Aborigines continue and that the small police force at my disposal is inadequate to put a stop to them. He went on to describe how the natives have been very troublesome, killing 90 head of cattle belonging to Mr Sparks, at various times, and many belonging to Mr Jones. It beggars belief that it was accepted as a completely reliable historical source. Gardner himself refers to Nuntin as the station established by McMillan for Macalister on western side of the Avon River in October 1840. 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. 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. Beyond this, the subject needs a complete reassessment and the instilling of some academic rigour. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. 148 0 obj <>stream The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. However, Thomas, Hatcher and Meyrick did not mention Warrigal Creek as Gardner claimsand they certainly did not mention McMillan. Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre in of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. Events.com Browse is curated for you to find and attend events you love. To date, there is nothing to suggest that it will include Angus McMillan leading the Charge of the Highland Brigade. [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. %%EOF 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.. 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. 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 statistical discrepancies likely emerged because Macmillan's group killed Aboriginal people at five different locations in the area. However, the region was isolated from the rest of New South Wales by mountains, rivers, forests, swamps and the fierce reputation of the Kurnai. 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. He recorded that there were fifty-five Prisoners of the Crown in Gippsland, nine of whom were in government service. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> 0000034566 00000 n 2020, Cnr. 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. 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. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. 0000008955 00000 n 2151 This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. [52] There could not have been a cover-up if human remains were still visible after their arrivals. 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. If the problem persists contact Customer Support. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. Thomas wrote in April 1845: He said he and another man had come unarmed from Gippsland. stream 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. It is cited in the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for McMillan, which is in turn cited on the Victorian Parliament website. [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. [2] Some historians assert that the number of 60 is an exaggeration, despite the witness accounts. Purchase tickets, Personally, it,s hard to know who to believe, such is my lack of confidence. 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. He calls them The McMillan Massacres. 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. Please try again. 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]. Around 60 Indigenous Australians were killed, and many more were wounded. [8], Michael Connor: The Massacre Maps shoddy research, In order to export livestock, the squatters needed a port and grazing land in Gippsland, as it was the closest part of the mainland to Van Diemens Land. searching events in no time. 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 . 0000020901 00000 n Purchase tickets, In Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. hbbbd`b`` K He has attached his own assertions to his source material without distinguishing between them, and these assertions are made without proof or explanation. 0001064425 00000 n The Warrigal Creek Massacre of 1843 was another despicable act of violence. [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. GLaWAC has been given permission to screen the Warrigal Creek Massacre film at our office at Forestec. HLWKf_e|~JD,@K&HSU}t?nO?7OWO?zW_/Vew}V53VfyKwVh{OM5{=+JUwPfQ}-nXY34lMXGz+{? 0000116524 00000 n 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. 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. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. MAR [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. You can still browse your favorite events on our Your email address will not be published. This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. It is about the importance of truth- telling. [45] Hoddinotts tale thus appears to contain generic elements from the period. 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. The aim of this article is to examine Gardners interpretation of the Warrigal Creek massacre story and his accusations against McMillan. Please note and use or adapt the following words. Over there, thats where the whitefellas killed our old fellas., The Gurnaikurnai artist Steaphan Paton says the monuments to McMillan one calls him Gippslands discoverer should be removed: They belong in a museum, they dont belong on our land.. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. 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. To secure your seat go to. 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 stories were republished as The Book of the Bush in 1898. T*,2$i ,2N0p$ rOE2)Tde$2([X~O`E([HH|MrJSo According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. A documentary was made in 2018 and a federal electorate was renamed that year to remove the legacy of Angus McMillan, the alleged instigator, who is otherwise remembered as an explorer, squatter, MP and Protector of Aborigines. One might assume that Balderstone was blissfully unaware of this when she moved to the farm in 1974, but she explains she knew about Warrigal Creek from the beginning. y]\lt`(+WT5[y&Z}_~PbEH/XFN4Kz+Vb)44BQ?Zh*Y Eo4/xhJk This documentary was made by university journalism students and staff. Home News Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. Thu Gardner claims it is a secondary source but it is, at best, folk history that he has embroidered with his own fiction about McMillan. 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. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. Drawing on official archives and oral histories that have never died, this is the story of The Warrigal Creek Massacre. 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. LGMedia. 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. This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. Historian Peter Gardner, in a review of all accounts of the massacre, wrote that MacMillan and the Highland Brigade aimed to wipe out all the Aboriginal people in the area. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. 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. 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. 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. 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. There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. A Scottish colonist, called Angus McMillan, led a group of about 20 settlers who . Gardners reliability can best be judged by his rewriting of an inter-tribal massacre at Tambo Crossing. 0000001936 00000 n 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. [33] His work was cited widely in a motion to remove monuments to McMillan put before the Wellington Shire Council in June 2020. Probably even as a child I just sensed something its a really spiritual place, she says. 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. Could you help us please? George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. Gardners method in telling the story is to first present the massacre and McMillans involvement as matters of fact. 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 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. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. 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. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. An important part of Australian history, necessary for reconciliation. He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the 'brigade' from one camp to another.". 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. 0000003656 00000 n Second, Hatcher arrived in Gippsland several months after Tyers, so it was just a tad late to be a cover-up. There were simple economic facts that led to this. 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