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How colonialism formed Melbourne's grid, News, La Trobe University. A play, Coranderrk: we will show the country, has been performed in theatres around Melbourne, and this month will show on the former site of Coranderrk Aboriginal mission, 70 kilometers northeast of central Melbourne. It's a poignant re-enactment of an 1881 Victorian Parliamentary hearing, where Aboriginal residents protested the proposed change of mission manager. Predicting that the new manager would thwart the success of their hop farm, and hence hinder their land rights movement, the Wurundjeri leader, William Barak, spoke forcefully against the proposed change of management.

When I saw the play in 2012, I realised that, contrary to my assumptions, the politics of Aboriginal land rights had long been an urban phenomenon. In this, historians have documented, Melbourne isn't unique. The halls of power of cities across the globe have heard Indigenous people's protests against their entwined economic marginalisation and dispossession. Robert Hoddle's grid and the birth of Melbourne - By Design - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The city of Melbourne's distinctive grid design was carefully laid out by Robert Hoddle, following strict regulations, in 1837. After 150 years of redevelopment, trams, and laneways, Matt Smith is joined by architectural historian Miles Lewis to see how Hoddle's grid has fared. When Robert Hoddle came to the shores of the Yarra River in 1837 there was little to greet him besides an illegal settlement of colonists who had come over from Launceston. He led a team that would map out the foundation for a new city, following the regulations laid out in 1829 under the previous governor, Ralph Darling.

Miles Lewis, a professor of architectural history at the University of Melbourne, has been studying cities and how they work for years. He says that the regulations had much more to do with Melbourne's design than direction from Hoddle. 'The assumption always was that you'd survey in a rectangular fashion. 'Surveyors all really aspire to rectangular grids,' he says. Grid Plan - Entry - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online. The plan of Central Melbourne has often been described as unimaginative, but the site was carefully chosen and the layout was more or less inevitable.

The site had already been occupied by private settlers, but there were good reasons behind such settlement, which the government surveyors accepted. The wider part of the Yarra River called the Pool was delimited by a reef upstream, forming a waterfall at low tides. Fresh water, essential to the settlement, could only be obtained above the Yarra Falls. Boats could not navigate past the Falls, but below them there was ample space and even ships could moor and turn, thus making the Pool a natural landing place. Once the Pool had been chosen as the focus of settlement, the north bank was inevitably the site, because the south side of the river was low-lying swampy ground, subject to regular flooding.

The Darling regulations prescribed 10 chain (200 m) square blocks each containing 20 half-acre (0.2 ha) allotments. Miles Lewis.

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The Federation Story: William Barak - ABC Education. Subjects: Geography, History Years: F-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 Stephen (Rocky) Tregonning explains the importance of William Barak to the Aboriginal people of Melbourne. Why was William Barak an important figure? Acknowledgements Koorie Heritage Trust. Production Date: 2017 Copyright Metadata © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). History Of Australia | Australians Together. Intergenerational trauma Indigenous people who haven't directly experienced the events or policies of our history are often still impacted by the legacy left behind. Trauma caused by colonisation, including violence and loss of culture and land, as well as policies such as the forced removal of children, is often passed from generation to generation in families and communities, with devastating effects.

It's important to view the challenges faced by many Indigenous communities in the context of this history. Many people may not realise just how recent much of this history is. In fact, there are people alive today who were: forcibly removed from their parents under government policyseparated from their childrenbanned in towns after 6:00pmnot allowed to be in public areas without permissionbarred from schools and hospitalsforced to work in the homes of non-Indigenous people and had their earnings permanently withheld by the government Moving on together. Australian Aboriginal peoples - Aboriginal peoples in Australian society. Early alien contact Aboriginal peoples who lived on the north coast were the only ones to encounter foreign visitors before European settlement. Seagoing Makassarese traders from the Indonesian archipelago began making regular visits to Arnhem Land sometime before the 1700s to harvest bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber, or trepang) for export to China.

They had a powerful impact on local art, music, ritual, and material culture. In the northeast, on Cape York Peninsula, Papuan visitors from New Guinea also had an influence; bows and arrows, dugout canoes, masked ritual dancing, and the use of the drum can all be traced to them. Yet these influences did not penetrate into the rest of the continent, the inhabitants of which had no knowledge of non-Aboriginal people and no need to develop cultural mechanisms aimed at withstanding the impact of alien and culturally different peoples. The Europeans British settlement, dating from 1788, was altogether different. Ronald M. Aboriginal Culture and History - Aboriginal Cultural Capability Toolkit - VPSC. Aboriginal History Aboriginal people have a shared history of colonisation and forced removal of their children. To be culturally competent, we must acknowledge and tell the truth about Australian history and its ongoing impact for Aboriginal people, and we should understand how the past continues to shape lives today.

Before colonisation Aboriginal people lived in small family groups linked into larger language groups with distinct territorial boundaries. These groups had complex kinship systems and rules for social interaction; they had roles relating to law, education, spiritual development and resource management; they had language, ceremonies, customs and traditions and extensive knowledge of their environment.

European colonisation had a devastating impact on Aboriginal communities and cultures. Some sources you can access for information are: Stolen Generations The removal of Aboriginal children took place from the early days of British colonisation in Australia. Aboriginal Culture. Aboriginal Culture. How early Australians treated Aboriginal people. Indigenous land use. Before European settlement, the area we now call 'Victoria' was divided into as many as 32 different Indigenous language groups.

These groups (often referred to as 'tribes') spoke different languages, built different types of housing and practised different types of farming. Like the Europeans who were to follow, the Indigenous population manipulated the environment to their own ends. When Major Thomas Mitchell first made his way through the Port Phillip district in winter of 1836 he was struck by how much some of the landscape resembled Europe. Australia's Indigenous people had shaped the land: The world of the Australians was as moulded by conscious human action as were the hedgerowed fields of England. Kenny, R 2008, When the Lamb Enters the Dreaming, Scribe, Melbourne, Vic.

In recent years archaeologists have uncovered just how sophisticated the farming practices employed by some Indigenous groups in Victoria were. Aboriginal Melbourne - Entry - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online. Initial relations between indigenous and settler people in the Melbourne region were mixed, but combined to create a familiar pattern marked by colonial power. On 15 February 1802, 20 crew of the brig Lady Nelson, the first ship to enter Port Phillip Bay, met five Boon wurrung men on the beach near Arthurs Seat.

They exchanged greetings and danced, but that afternoon violence erupted and contacts ceased. The Boon wurrung also kept their distance from the garrison at the abortive convict settlement at Sorrento (1803-1804). Over the next 30 years, sealers, whalers and a few castaways (including William Buckley) made intermittent, sometimes violent, contacts with Kulin clans. In May 1835 John Batman, representing Hobart entrepreneurs, made a treaty with the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung people, allegedly purchasing some of their land. As more Europeans arrived to take advantage of the pastoral economy or to work in the growing town, the balance tipped in the Europeans' favour. References. Treaty - The Aboriginal History of Yarra. On 6 June 1835, John Batman, leader of the Port Phillip Association presented Wurundjeri Elders with a land use agreement.

This document, now referred to as the Batman treaty, was later given to the British government to claim that local Aboriginal people had given Batman access to their land in exchange for goods and rations. Today, the meaning and interpretation of this treaty is contested. Some argue it was pretence for taking Aboriginal land in exchange for trinkets, while others argue it was significant in its recognition of Aboriginal land rights. The meeting between Batman and the Kulin Ngurungaeta (head clan-men) is believed to have taken place by the Merri Creek,[i] probably near modern day Rushall Station.

[i] Ellender and Christianson, People of the Merri Merri, 19 [ii] Meyer Eidelson, The Melbourne Dreaming: A Guide to the Aboriginal Places of Melbourne, Canberrra, Aborignal Studies Press, 1997, 32 Batman's treaty was deemed invalid. Frontier wars - Deadly Story. This article looks at the Frontier Wars that occurred during the invasion and colonisation of what we now call 'Australia'. We will discuss acts of oppression and violence in some detail against our people and there will be images and videos depicting the conflict. Children should speak to a trusted adult before reading. In 1788, sometime between the 16th and 20th of January, the 11 ships that encompassed the 'first fleet' arrived in Sydney's Botany Bay.

On board were just over 1000 people, majority of whom were convicts and their families. They planned to begin a penal colony (settlement used to exile prisoners) that would later become the 'Australia' we know today. An overview The Frontier Wars refer to all the massacres, wars and instances of resistances beginning from the arrival of colonists in 1788. Conflict on the Rufus. Massacres and wars Below we have given brief descriptions on a few of the massacres within the Frontier Wars. The Black War (The Tasmanian War) Coniston Massacre.

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The Federation Story: William Barak - ABC Education. Subjects: Geography, History Years: F-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 Stephen (Rocky) Tregonning explains the importance of William Barak to the Aboriginal people of Melbourne. Why was William Barak an important figure? Acknowledgements Koorie Heritage Trust. Production Date: 2017 Copyright Metadata © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). History Of Australia | Australians Together. Intergenerational trauma Indigenous people who haven't directly experienced the events or policies of our history are often still impacted by the legacy left behind. Trauma caused by colonisation, including violence and loss of culture and land, as well as policies such as the forced removal of children, is often passed from generation to generation in families and communities, with devastating effects.

It's important to view the challenges faced by many Indigenous communities in the context of this history. Many people may not realise just how recent much of this history is. In fact, there are people alive today who were: forcibly removed from their parents under government policyseparated from their childrenbanned in towns after 6:00pmnot allowed to be in public areas without permissionbarred from schools and hospitalsforced to work in the homes of non-Indigenous people and had their earnings permanently withheld by the government Moving on together. Australian Aboriginal peoples - Aboriginal peoples in Australian society. Early alien contact Aboriginal peoples who lived on the north coast were the only ones to encounter foreign visitors before European settlement. Seagoing Makassarese traders from the Indonesian archipelago began making regular visits to Arnhem Land sometime before the 1700s to harvest bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber, or trepang) for export to China.

They had a powerful impact on local art, music, ritual, and material culture. In the northeast, on Cape York Peninsula, Papuan visitors from New Guinea also had an influence; bows and arrows, dugout canoes, masked ritual dancing, and the use of the drum can all be traced to them. Yet these influences did not penetrate into the rest of the continent, the inhabitants of which had no knowledge of non-Aboriginal people and no need to develop cultural mechanisms aimed at withstanding the impact of alien and culturally different peoples. The Europeans British settlement, dating from 1788, was altogether different. Ronald M. Aboriginal Culture and History - Aboriginal Cultural Capability Toolkit - VPSC. Aboriginal History Aboriginal people have a shared history of colonisation and forced removal of their children. To be culturally competent, we must acknowledge and tell the truth about Australian history and its ongoing impact for Aboriginal people, and we should understand how the past continues to shape lives today.

Before colonisation Aboriginal people lived in small family groups linked into larger language groups with distinct territorial boundaries. These groups had complex kinship systems and rules for social interaction; they had roles relating to law, education, spiritual development and resource management; they had language, ceremonies, customs and traditions and extensive knowledge of their environment.

European colonisation had a devastating impact on Aboriginal communities and cultures. Some sources you can access for information are: Stolen Generations The removal of Aboriginal children took place from the early days of British colonisation in Australia. Aboriginal Culture. Aboriginal Culture. How early Australians treated Aboriginal people. Indigenous land use. Before European settlement, the area we now call 'Victoria' was divided into as many as 32 different Indigenous language groups.

These groups (often referred to as 'tribes') spoke different languages, built different types of housing and practised different types of farming. Like the Europeans who were to follow, the Indigenous population manipulated the environment to their own ends. When Major Thomas Mitchell first made his way through the Port Phillip district in winter of 1836 he was struck by how much some of the landscape resembled Europe. Australia's Indigenous people had shaped the land: The world of the Australians was as moulded by conscious human action as were the hedgerowed fields of England. Kenny, R 2008, When the Lamb Enters the Dreaming, Scribe, Melbourne, Vic.

In recent years archaeologists have uncovered just how sophisticated the farming practices employed by some Indigenous groups in Victoria were. Aboriginal Melbourne - Entry - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online. Initial relations between indigenous and settler people in the Melbourne region were mixed, but combined to create a familiar pattern marked by colonial power. On 15 February 1802, 20 crew of the brig Lady Nelson, the first ship to enter Port Phillip Bay, met five Boon wurrung men on the beach near Arthurs Seat.

They exchanged greetings and danced, but that afternoon violence erupted and contacts ceased. The Boon wurrung also kept their distance from the garrison at the abortive convict settlement at Sorrento (1803-1804). Over the next 30 years, sealers, whalers and a few castaways (including William Buckley) made intermittent, sometimes violent, contacts with Kulin clans. In May 1835 John Batman, representing Hobart entrepreneurs, made a treaty with the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung people, allegedly purchasing some of their land. As more Europeans arrived to take advantage of the pastoral economy or to work in the growing town, the balance tipped in the Europeans' favour. References. Treaty - The Aboriginal History of Yarra. On 6 June 1835, John Batman, leader of the Port Phillip Association presented Wurundjeri Elders with a land use agreement.

This document, now referred to as the Batman treaty, was later given to the British government to claim that local Aboriginal people had given Batman access to their land in exchange for goods and rations. Today, the meaning and interpretation of this treaty is contested. Some argue it was pretence for taking Aboriginal land in exchange for trinkets, while others argue it was significant in its recognition of Aboriginal land rights. The meeting between Batman and the Kulin Ngurungaeta (head clan-men) is believed to have taken place by the Merri Creek,[i] probably near modern day Rushall Station.

[i] Ellender and Christianson, People of the Merri Merri, 19 [ii] Meyer Eidelson, The Melbourne Dreaming: A Guide to the Aboriginal Places of Melbourne, Canberrra, Aborignal Studies Press, 1997, 32 Batman's treaty was deemed invalid. Frontier wars - Deadly Story. This article looks at the Frontier Wars that occurred during the invasion and colonisation of what we now call 'Australia'. We will discuss acts of oppression and violence in some detail against our people and there will be images and videos depicting the conflict. Children should speak to a trusted adult before reading. In 1788, sometime between the 16th and 20th of January, the 11 ships that encompassed the 'first fleet' arrived in Sydney's Botany Bay.

On board were just over 1000 people, majority of whom were convicts and their families. They planned to begin a penal colony (settlement used to exile prisoners) that would later become the 'Australia' we know today. An overview The Frontier Wars refer to all the massacres, wars and instances of resistances beginning from the arrival of colonists in 1788. Conflict on the Rufus. Massacres and wars Below we have given brief descriptions on a few of the massacres within the Frontier Wars. The Black War (The Tasmanian War) Coniston Massacre.

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Melbourne's founders. The names John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner often appear side by side, even though the two were bitter rivals during their lives. Both men believed they were the rightful founder of Melbourne, and supporters on both sides still argue the point: Circumstances, as far as I know, point to honest John Batman as the real founder of Victoria [...]

From all I have heard for years past I do believe that Mr Fawkner, knowing that Batman was about to cross over to Port Phillip, followed in his wake.- Hamilton Hume, 1867 Bonwick, J 1868, John Batman: the founder of Victoria, Fergusson & Moore, Melbourne. This quote emphasises Batman as the founder of Melbourne, and downplays Fawkner's claim to the title. One of the arguments against Batman's claim is the location of Melbourne's city grid. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner are credited as Melbourne's first pioneers, but the question 'who really founded Melbourne? ' survey. John Pascoe Fawkner. Born in England in 1792, John Pascoe Fawkner went to Port Phillip for the first time when he was 11 years old. His father was sentenced to 14 years transportation for receiving stolen goods, so in 1803 the family travelled to Australia on the Calcutta.

Due to harsh weather and poor water, the group soon left Port Phillip and founded a new settlement in Van Diemen's Land . The Fawkner family prospered in Hobart and by 1814, John Fawkner had taken over his father's bakery. But in the same year, John made the mistake of helping seven convicts escape. After his release, Fawkner and his new wife, Eliza Cobb, moved to Launceston to make a new start. [Fawkner] was glib of tongue, choleric in disposition; and it is therefore, not much wonder to hear of his having practised as an advocate in the old public Court of Launceston...- James Bonwick, 1883 Bonwick, J, 1883, Port Phillip Settlement, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London teetotaller Although he was outspoken, eccentric. John Batman Memorial - Cultural Artefact - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online.

J.W. Brown Bluestone cairn Date unknown Queen Victoria Market A prosperous Tasmanian farmer, John Batman looked to Victoria to increase his grazing lands. In 1835, Batman made his controversial 'treaty' with Wurundjeri elders and returned to Launceston to make arrangements for the new settlement. On returning to Victoria some months later, he found John Pascoe Fawkner had already settled the site of Melbourne. With his health declining, he settled on Batman's Hill, near the present site of Southern Cross Station.

He died of syphilis just four years later in 1839. Batman was buried in the old Melbourne cemetery (since 1922 the Queen Victorian Market), but no headstone marked his grave. City Of Melbourne. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner A reason for leaving Tasmania - Fawkner's small cottage at Austins Ferry (AOT, PH30/1/4896) John Batman (1801-39) and John Pascoe Fawkner (1782-1869), founders of Victoria, were both sons of convicts. Fawkner arrived on the Calcutta in 1804, and his pioneering experiences included work as a timber-getter, builder, farmer, colonially-sentenced convict and baker, before he moved to Launceston, where he tried a variety of occupations but was best known for his establishment and operation of the Cornwall Hotel and the Launceston Advertiser.

Batman, born in Parramatta, came to Tasmania in 1821. He acquired Kingston, a rural property near Ben Lomond, large in acreage and poor agriculturally, and achieved local prominence by capturing bushranger Matthew Brady, by his conciliatory dealings with Aborigines, and as founder and agent for the Port Phillip Association which aimed to develop this area. Their subsequent careers were in great contrast. Gwenda Webb. The truth about John Batman: Melbourne's founder and 'murderer of the blacks' John Batman, the beloved founder of Melbourne, is widely considered to have been sympathetic towards Aboriginal people. This reputation stems largely from his famous attempt (unique in Australian history) to purchase the land around Port Phillip via a treaty with the local Wurundjeru people. This snippet of Batman's life, nurtured by a long tradition of venerating pioneers, has endeared him to generations of Australians, particularly as a friend to the Aborigines.

In the school book series Great Australians, Batman is said to have "acted always with a humanity and kindness unheard-of for his day." Why then, in his 2011 Vogel Award-winning novel, The Roving Party, would Rohan Wilson depict Batman as a scoundrel and a murderer? This fictional account, which Wilson claims is based on real events, describes Batman's exploits as a "roving party" leader in Tasmania during the late 1820s and early 1830s, sent out to hunt down Aborigines. But first some context. "Mr. But he never reprimanded Batman. Call to remove statue of John Batman, 'founder of Melbourne', over role in Indigenous killings. Wemba Wemba-Wergaia historian Dean Stewart, founder of Aboriginal Tours and Education Melbourne, said he supported changing the date of Australia Day to one that "everybody can celebrate". But Stewart said Batman's story was unknown to many Melburnians and should be told, not buried.

"Batman was a young guy who made his name as a bounty hunter killing Tasmanian Aboriginal people," Stewart said. "He was a major player in the 'black wars' of the 1820s, which was a government-sanctioned genocide of the of Palawa people. "That's how he made his name, that's how he built his massive estate over in Kingston, and that's how he got his wealth. " Stewart said Batman's own diary revealed how he led a night massacre of a sleeping village and executed the injured. Stewart said Batman's story arc then took a "tragic, karmic" descent in which he "got back sevenfold" what he inflicted on the original owners of the land.

"So I don't feel resentment or anger or anything towards him," Stewart said. John Batman | Monument Australia. A statue commemorates John Batman, the founder of the settlement of Melbourne. On 10 May 1835 Batman, accompanied by three European and six Aboriginal assistants sailed from Launceston for Port Phillip, where they arrived on 29 May. After a preliminary examination of the country to the west of Port Phillip Batman sailed up to near the present site of Williamstown, landed at the mouth of the Yarra, and followed it up to where it is joined by the Saltwater, now Maribyrnong, river. He followed the course of this river for some distance in a northerly direction, and then proceeded east to the Merri Creek.

There Batman met a party of aborigines and purchased about 600,000 acres of their land. John Batman (1801 - 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer. John Batman is widely considered to have been sympathetic towards Aboriginal people. Nowhere in Australia was the frontier fighting more intense, and nowhere was the Aboriginal resistance more effective. "Mr. Location Details.

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Melbourne's founders. The names John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner often appear side by side, even though the two were bitter rivals during their lives. Both men believed they were the rightful founder of Melbourne, and supporters on both sides still argue the point: Circumstances, as far as I know, point to honest John Batman as the real founder of Victoria [...]

From all I have heard for years past I do believe that Mr Fawkner, knowing that Batman was about to cross over to Port Phillip, followed in his wake.- Hamilton Hume, 1867 Bonwick, J 1868, John Batman: the founder of Victoria, Fergusson & Moore, Melbourne. This quote emphasises Batman as the founder of Melbourne, and downplays Fawkner's claim to the title. One of the arguments against Batman's claim is the location of Melbourne's city grid. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner are credited as Melbourne's first pioneers, but the question 'who really founded Melbourne? ' survey. John Pascoe Fawkner. Born in England in 1792, John Pascoe Fawkner went to Port Phillip for the first time when he was 11 years old. His father was sentenced to 14 years transportation for receiving stolen goods, so in 1803 the family travelled to Australia on the Calcutta.

Due to harsh weather and poor water, the group soon left Port Phillip and founded a new settlement in Van Diemen's Land . The Fawkner family prospered in Hobart and by 1814, John Fawkner had taken over his father's bakery. But in the same year, John made the mistake of helping seven convicts escape. After his release, Fawkner and his new wife, Eliza Cobb, moved to Launceston to make a new start. [Fawkner] was glib of tongue, choleric in disposition; and it is therefore, not much wonder to hear of his having practised as an advocate in the old public Court of Launceston...- James Bonwick, 1883 Bonwick, J, 1883, Port Phillip Settlement, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London teetotaller Although he was outspoken, eccentric. John Batman Memorial - Cultural Artefact - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online.

J.W. Brown Bluestone cairn Date unknown Queen Victoria Market A prosperous Tasmanian farmer, John Batman looked to Victoria to increase his grazing lands. In 1835, Batman made his controversial 'treaty' with Wurundjeri elders and returned to Launceston to make arrangements for the new settlement. On returning to Victoria some months later, he found John Pascoe Fawkner had already settled the site of Melbourne. With his health declining, he settled on Batman's Hill, near the present site of Southern Cross Station.

He died of syphilis just four years later in 1839. Batman was buried in the old Melbourne cemetery (since 1922 the Queen Victorian Market), but no headstone marked his grave. City Of Melbourne. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner A reason for leaving Tasmania - Fawkner's small cottage at Austins Ferry (AOT, PH30/1/4896) John Batman (1801-39) and John Pascoe Fawkner (1782-1869), founders of Victoria, were both sons of convicts. Fawkner arrived on the Calcutta in 1804, and his pioneering experiences included work as a timber-getter, builder, farmer, colonially-sentenced convict and baker, before he moved to Launceston, where he tried a variety of occupations but was best known for his establishment and operation of the Cornwall Hotel and the Launceston Advertiser.

Batman, born in Parramatta, came to Tasmania in 1821. He acquired Kingston, a rural property near Ben Lomond, large in acreage and poor agriculturally, and achieved local prominence by capturing bushranger Matthew Brady, by his conciliatory dealings with Aborigines, and as founder and agent for the Port Phillip Association which aimed to develop this area. Their subsequent careers were in great contrast. Gwenda Webb. The truth about John Batman: Melbourne's founder and 'murderer of the blacks' John Batman, the beloved founder of Melbourne, is widely considered to have been sympathetic towards Aboriginal people. This reputation stems largely from his famous attempt (unique in Australian history) to purchase the land around Port Phillip via a treaty with the local Wurundjeru people. This snippet of Batman's life, nurtured by a long tradition of venerating pioneers, has endeared him to generations of Australians, particularly as a friend to the Aborigines.

In the school book series Great Australians, Batman is said to have "acted always with a humanity and kindness unheard-of for his day." Why then, in his 2011 Vogel Award-winning novel, The Roving Party, would Rohan Wilson depict Batman as a scoundrel and a murderer? This fictional account, which Wilson claims is based on real events, describes Batman's exploits as a "roving party" leader in Tasmania during the late 1820s and early 1830s, sent out to hunt down Aborigines. But first some context. "Mr. But he never reprimanded Batman. Call to remove statue of John Batman, 'founder of Melbourne', over role in Indigenous killings. Wemba Wemba-Wergaia historian Dean Stewart, founder of Aboriginal Tours and Education Melbourne, said he supported changing the date of Australia Day to one that "everybody can celebrate". But Stewart said Batman's story was unknown to many Melburnians and should be told, not buried.

"Batman was a young guy who made his name as a bounty hunter killing Tasmanian Aboriginal people," Stewart said. "He was a major player in the 'black wars' of the 1820s, which was a government-sanctioned genocide of the of Palawa people. "That's how he made his name, that's how he built his massive estate over in Kingston, and that's how he got his wealth. " Stewart said Batman's own diary revealed how he led a night massacre of a sleeping village and executed the injured. Stewart said Batman's story arc then took a "tragic, karmic" descent in which he "got back sevenfold" what he inflicted on the original owners of the land.

"So I don't feel resentment or anger or anything towards him," Stewart said. John Batman | Monument Australia. A statue commemorates John Batman, the founder of the settlement of Melbourne. On 10 May 1835 Batman, accompanied by three European and six Aboriginal assistants sailed from Launceston for Port Phillip, where they arrived on 29 May. After a preliminary examination of the country to the west of Port Phillip Batman sailed up to near the present site of Williamstown, landed at the mouth of the Yarra, and followed it up to where it is joined by the Saltwater, now Maribyrnong, river. He followed the course of this river for some distance in a northerly direction, and then proceeded east to the Merri Creek.

There Batman met a party of aborigines and purchased about 600,000 acres of their land. John Batman (1801 - 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer. John Batman is widely considered to have been sympathetic towards Aboriginal people. Nowhere in Australia was the frontier fighting more intense, and nowhere was the Aboriginal resistance more effective. "Mr. Location Details.

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Timeline - Victoria's early history, 1803-1851. Before 1770 is home to many indigenous nations who had inhabited the land for thousands of years prior to European discovery and settlement. The continent of is first sighted by the crew on Captain James Cook's Endeavour voyage at Point Hicks, located in the far east of between and Mallacoota. George Bass sails through and sighted the coast around Wilson's Promontory and . In late December Captain James Grant in the Lady Nelson examines the coast of what is now Victoria sighting and naming such features as Portland Bay, Cape Albany Otway and Cape Schanck. Between Cape Otway and Wilson's Promontory the Lady Nelson crosses the bight that leads to Port Phillip but Grant does not detect the entrance to the harbour.

Grant returns in March to investigate the coastline between Cape Otway and Wilson's Promontory and survey Western Port. After surveying Western Port in December 1801, Lieutenant John Murray, aboard the Lady Nelson, enters , explores and formally takes possession of the area for . History timeline - Facts & figures - Travel Victoria: accommodation & visitor guide. Before 1770:Victoria is home to many indigenous nations who had inhabited the land for many thousands of years prior to European discovery and settlement. 1770:The continent of Australia was first sighted by the crew on Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage at Point Hicks, located in the far east of Victoria between Bemm River and Mallacoota. 1798:George Bass sailed through Bass Strait and sighted the coast around Wilsons Promontory and Western Port. 1802:Lieutenant John Murray, aboard the Lady Nelson, entered Port Phillip, explored Corio Bay and formally took possession of the area for Britain.

Matthew Flinders arrived in Port Phillip and climbed the bay's two major nearby peaks - Arthurs Seat and the You Yangs. 1803:Acting-Lieutenant Charles Robbins, surveyor-general Charles Grimes and gardener James Flemming sailed around Port Phillip and along sections of the Maribyrnong and Yarra Rivers. 1838:The first overland mail service between Melbourne and Sydney began operating. First steam railway. Implications In the decade immediately after the Flinders Street to Sandridge line opened, many other rail companies emerged that built lines in Melbourne and surrounds, running services around the city and into the booming goldfields.

However, it is interesting to note that, unlike the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, many of these were financial disasters. Eventually, the Victorian Government acquired most of these privately owned rail lines, creating Victorian Railways and operating an ever-expanding service network across the state. At around the same time, in other states, rail travel also proliferated as a more effective means of transport than horse-drawn vehicles, with Sydney only one year behind Melbourne in opening the first line in New South Wales. Rail networks soon sprang up across the country. This allowed the freer movement of people and goods across the nation despite issues with track gauge conformity between states that were only resolved after federation. Eureka Stockade. Conflict in the goldfields Starting in 1853, miners began to gather in 'monster' meetings to voice their complaints. Delegations presented their concerns to Governor La Trobe, but he was unreceptive to the requests.

Many of the diggers were politically engaged - some had participated in the Chartist movement for political reform in Britain during the 1830s and 1840s while others had been involved in the anti-authoritarian revolutions that spread across Europe in 1848. The situation on the goldfields was tense as police regularly ran 'licence hunts' to track down diggers who hadn't paid their fees. The miners claimed the police were extorting money, accepting bribes and imprisoning people without due process. On 6 October 1854 the Scottish miner James Scobie was killed in an altercation at the Eureka Hotel in Ballarat. The proprietor, JF Bentley, was accused of the killing. A court of inquiry was held and Bentley was quickly exonerated. Conflict in the goldfields. Melbourne Cup. First Melbourne Cup The first Melbourne Cup was held on Thursday 7 November, as the practice of running the event on the first Tuesday of November wasn't introduced until 1875. While the recent news of Burke and Wills' death had put Melbourne in a sombre mood, fine weather and the novelty of a handicap race drew a decent crowd to Flemington.

As continues to be the case, people from all walks of life ventured to the track to try their luck. '[T]he Grand Stand was tolerably well filled, and with a more than usual attendance of ladies; whilst on 'the Hill' (the price of admission having been reduced to 1 shilling for each day) the public crowded in large numbers' - The Age (Melbourne), 8 November 1861 Fifty-seven horses were initially listed for the first Melbourne Cup, but for a variety of reasons only 17 started.

The favourite was a local horse, Morman. Furthermore, it was not to be the favourite's day. First Melbourne Cup Furthermore, it was not to be the favourite's day. Separation of NSW and Victoria. Port Phillip District In 1836 Governor Richard Bourke of New South Wales, concerned with the increasing number of illegal settlements developing around Port Phillip, created the Port Phillip District and appointed Captain William Lonsdale as the government's Chief Agent.

Governor Bourke granted grazing rights to squatters subject to payment of a £10 licence fee. In 1837 senior surveyor Robert Hoddle laid out a plan for the new town of Melbourne. Hoddle also served as auctioneer for the first sale of crown land in Melbourne on 1 June 1837. First ideas of separation In January 1839 Charles La Trobe was appointed superintendent of the Port Phillip District. By 1840, however, there were 10,000 settlers in the Port Phillip area and a Separation Association was founded. Henry Fyshe Gisborne had been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Port Phillip District in 1839. Forced by ill health to resign from his post in May 1840, Gisborne presented Governor Gipps with the petition in June. The pastoral system | Ergo. In 1836 squatters from Van Diemen's Land crossed Bass Strait to settle what was then known as the Port Phillip district of New South Wales, now country Victoria. The squatters settled the land illegally.

It took at least a year for the colonial authorities in New South Wales to realise that there were people squatting in the Port Phillip district. In 1844 the authorities decided that the squatters would pay a Depasturing Licence of £10 per run. The license allowed the squatters to become pastoralists and to set up where they chose on Crown land . Tacit agreement between pastoralists that there would be a distance of three miles (about 5 kilometres) between stations. Sayers, C E [ed.] 1983 Letters from Victorian pioneers : a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc. addressed by Victorian pioneers to His Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Lloyd O'Neil for Currey O'Neil, South Yarra, Vic.

Foundation and Early History - Entry - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online. The effective beginnings of Melbourne long preceded the official foundation of the town by Governor Richard Bourke on 19 May 1837. Surveyor Charles Grimes, sent by Governor King to explore Port Phillip, had reached the future site of Melbourne on 4 February 1803 and reported it a 'most eligible place for a settlement', but there was no further interest until 1835, when John Batman, one of a group of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmanian) investors and pastoralists (soon to be expanded into the Port Phillip Association) visited to search for good pastoral land. He claimed to have bought 600 000 ac (about 240 000 ha) from the Woi wurrung people. Interested in the rumours about the land, Fawkner bought the schooner Enterprize in April 1835, but he could not take delivery until 14 July, which was after Batman had returned from his reconnaissance.

Fawkner wanted to sail at once, but his debts stopped him from leaving the colony and bad weather held up the ship. Crime remained a problem. A.G.L. 12 Moments in History That Shaped Melbourne. From the Victorian Gold Rush and the Eureka Stockade, to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia, Ned Kelly's last stand and the Black Saturday bush fires, these historic events are seared into the Victorian subconscious and have helped shape Melbourne's identity.

There is much dispute regarding whether it was John Batman or his rival John Pascoe Fawkner who rightfully founded Melbourne. John Batman arrived in Port Phillip Bay from Van Dieman's Land (Tasmanian) in 1835 and signed a treaty with the local Aboriginal people, the Wurundjeri. Later that year, the Fawkner party, minus John Pascoe Fawkner, arrived on the Enterprize into Port Phillip Bay. On 25th June 1847, the Town of Melbourne was declared a city by Letters Patent of Queen Victoria, a friend of Lord Melbourne. 0122 Welcome Stranger Gold Mine, Baileston, Victoria, 1902 | © GSV/Flickr BE080926 | © Tullio Saba/Flickr. Colonial Melbourne. A History of Melbourne. By Tim Lambert Dedicated to Terry and Rhonda Luff Early Melbourne The first Europeans visited the site of Melbourne in 1803. A group of settlers landed at Port Phillip Bay but within a year they moved on to Tasmania. The city of Melbourne in Australia was founded in 1835. Nevertheless Batman and others then settled on the north bank of the Yarra River.

However the governor of New South Wales Richard Bourke (1777-1855) declared that Batman's treaty with the Indigenous Australians was invalid. He sent a surveyor named Robert Hoddle (1794-1881) to plan a proper town laid out in a grid pattern. St Francis Church opened in 1845. Melbourne in the late 19th Century By 1851 Melbourne was already a considerable town with 29,000 inhabitants. As Melbourne exploded in size many new buildings were erected. Furthermore between 1842 and 1929 over 130 people were hanged in Old Melbourne Gaol including Ned Kelly The first railway in Australia was built in 1854 between Melbourne and Port Melbourne.

Home. History of Melbourne. History of Melbourne The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges that it is located on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. This special place is now known by its European name of Melbourne. Today, Melbourne is one of the great multicultural cities of the world and is a significant meeting place. For the Wurundjeri, Boonerwrung, Taungurong, Djajawurrung and the Wathaurung which make up the Kulin Nation, Melbourne has always been an important meeting place and location for events of social, educational, sporting and cultural significance. History of Melbourne Melbourne is the capital of Victoria, and home to close to 4 million people. Melbourne was founded on the Yarra River in 1835 after an abortive bid in 1803 to establish a settlement inside the Port Phillip Bay heads near Sorrento. The Port Phillip District gained independence from New South Wales in 1850. This proved to be a hollow gesture.

At this time Batman explored the shores of Port Phillip and chose a site for a village.

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Timeline - Victoria's early history, 1803-1851. Before 1770 is home to many indigenous nations who had inhabited the land for thousands of years prior to European discovery and settlement. The continent of is first sighted by the crew on Captain James Cook's Endeavour voyage at Point Hicks, located in the far east of between and Mallacoota.