Links and further Info
The Tragedy of the Bunurong Peoplehttp://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/htm/article/499.htm
Aboriginal Heritage Management - Guides, Forms and Practice Notes
http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/aboriginal-affairs/heritage-tools/aboriginal-heritage-management-guides-forms-and-practice-notes
http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/aboriginal-affairs/heritage-tools/aboriginal-heritage-management-guides-forms-and-practice-notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians
In a frank admission in a diary entry, the western Victorian squatter, Niel Black, discussed the understanding that prevailed in Victoria in the early 1840s of the need to massacre local Aboriginal populations when occupying their lands.
The best way [to procure a run] is to go outside and take up a new run, provided the conscience of the party is sufficiently seared to enable him without remorse to slaughter natives right and left. It is universally and distinctly understood that the chances are very small indeed of a person taking up a new run being able to maintain possession of his place and property without having recourse to such means — sometimes by wholesale . . . (9 December 1839)
In a frank admission in a diary entry, the western Victorian squatter, Niel Black, discussed the understanding that prevailed in Victoria in the early 1840s of the need to massacre local Aboriginal populations when occupying their lands.
The best way [to procure a run] is to go outside and take up a new run, provided the conscience of the party is sufficiently seared to enable him without remorse to slaughter natives right and left. It is universally and distinctly understood that the chances are very small indeed of a person taking up a new run being able to maintain possession of his place and property without having recourse to such means — sometimes by wholesale . . . (9 December 1839)