DANIEL JAMES
As we continue down the path of truth and then Treaty in this place we now know as Victoria, it is critical to have an open dialogue not only about the true history of this place, but also about the path toward Treaty.
The painful stories to be told, the uncomfortable realities to be heard.
Victoria itself is a tapestry of interwoven First Nations cultures, in which mob from all over the country come to learn and teach each other about our respective cultures. The Treaty process must be generous enough to hear the voices of people that have come to love this land as much as we do.
Mysterious grave which stands alone in Princes Park since 1926
In Princes Park, Toxteth, there s a single, lone, mysterious gravestone, the story behind it is one of joy and community in Toxteth and the donkey at the heart of it all
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In the middle of Princes Park, in Toxteth, there’s a mysterious gravestone.
The stone stands alone, far from a cemetery but has become almost a feature in the popular park.
The inscription on the headstone reads as such: In Memory of Judy, who in 21 years service to this park was the children s’ friend, died 12th August 1926, aged 26. Judy had lived 26 long years, worked hard across the park not just keeping children happy, but also working to help the gardeners.
Today, few Victorians know about this slaughter of as many as 150 people â a crime for which no one was arrested. There are no plaques at the now peaceful spot on a farm 40 kilometres south of Sale and 200 kilometres east of Melbourne.
But there are more than a dozen monuments in Gippsland to pastoralist Angus McMillan, who is widely believed to have led this and other massacres. Until 2018, a federal electorate was named after him.
Also in the early 1840s, at Tambo Crossing, north-east of Bairnsdale, Mr Thorpeâs great-great-great grandfather, William Thorpe, and another boy survived a massacre of about 70 Gunnai people (committed by perpetrators that Aboriginesâ âchief protectorâ George Augustus Robinson termed âChristiansâ) by hiding in a log.
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