Victoria colonial history

Yoorrook Justice Commission finds genocide happened in Victoria

jane2025-08-05T12:43:06+10:00August 4th, 2025|

Revelations from Victoria'a Yoorrook Justice Commission throws more light on the atrocities that occurred across Australia during the frontier period. Read more in the story by Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton on ABC News, 2 July 2025: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168 You can access the Yoorrook Justice Commission here: https://www.yoorrook.org.au/history/victorias-history-to-now There is [...]

Premier prepared to apologise to First Nations Victorians for government injustices

jane2024-06-11T11:30:23+10:00June 11th, 2024|

Premier of the State of Victoria, Jacinta Allan, appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, in Naarm (Melbourne), has announced that she is prepared to apologise to Victoria's First Nations for past injustices. Read more: Declan Brennan National Indigenous Times, 29 April 2024: https://nit.com.au/29-04-2024/11104/victorian-premier-says-she-is-prepared-to-apologise-to-first-nations-victorians-for-injustices-suffered-due-to-government-policies For more about frontier conflicts that happened [...]

Truth of Victoria’s colonisation aired at Yoorrook Justice Commission

jane2024-04-06T14:32:08+11:00April 6th, 2024|

'The British initially thought Victoria's rapid colonisation in the 1830s was illegal, and were concerned by its violence,' read Kate Ashton's article and a view a video clip from the Yoorrook Justice Commission here on ABC News, Victoria, 5 April 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-05/victoria-colonisation-history-yoorrook-aboriginal-massacres/103658322 "The South Eastern Portion of Australia"; compiled [...]

“Legacy of terror”: Descendant of Victorian colonial family wants monuments to her ancestors removed

jane2024-04-05T14:07:39+11:00April 5th, 2024|

Appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission truth-telling inquiry, Suzannah Henty a sixth-generation Henty descendant, called for monuments to her family to be removed. Henty believes that the spray-painting of Henty monuments is evidence of the distress they cause to First Peoples. The inquiry opened in Victoria on Monday 25 [...]

Bitter Truths: colonisation was not so good for some

jane2023-10-13T15:15:27+11:00October 13th, 2023|

https://johnmenadue.com/bitter-truths-colonisation-was-not-so-good-for-some/

Australian Frontier Conflicts: 1839 letter reveals violence in colonial Melbourne

jane2018-07-18T01:29:19+10:00July 18th, 2018|

WFE Liardet (1840), Tullamareena escaping from the first Melbourne gaol in 1838. State Library of Victoria collection. Australian Frontier Conflicts: The University of Melbourne's Dr Katherine Ellinghaus, brings to light an 1839 letter that reveals the frontier violence that happened around colonial Melbourne. Read more at: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/criss-cross-history-hidden-in-a-letter One story [...]