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Advertisement A brutal period in Victoria’s history is set to be retold as part of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, the state government’s truth-telling inquiry into the wrongs committed against Aboriginal people after white settlement. One of the most difficult of these truths to confront will be the wave of slaughter unleashed in the mid-1800s, when Indigenous people were massacred by white pastoralists and explorers across the state’s frontiers. Robert Lowe wants to tell his family story of an Aboriginal massacre in Victoria’s west. Credit:Nicole Cleary Lyndall Ryan, from the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the History of Violence, has spent years researching the widespread killing of Aboriginal people by colonisers.

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