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Researching Australian history led journalist Paul Daley to accounts of a shameful trade by 19th and 20th century collectors that is still playing out to this day.
DYLAN Van Den Berg and his auntie, Gaye Doolan, make a formidable double act.
He’s the up-and-coming actor and playwright who just snared the coveted Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the Griffin Award and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award in 2020.
She’s the former chair of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, and the Environment Reconciliation Action Plan Committee at the ANU Medical School, and now works with the National Cultural Educators and Cultural Mentors Network.
Both identify as Palawa Tasmanian Aboriginal Australians from the north-east of Tasmania, and both are linked through a close ancestral relationship, although Doolan prefers to call herself “more like his great-aunt”.
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.
there goes cars. i saw headlights go flying. you need to stop. no, keep going. we will go slow. my god, we need to see if everybody is all right. we need to go. this video shows strong winds taking on a tractor-trailer, sending it tumbling to its side. here is what you re driver said he witnessed while on the road. i was in my truck driving here to come get some dinner saw the tornado. i jumped out of my truck, climbed in the ditch and watched the tornado pull the semi flip it around destroyed the house across the street and houses all the way down. a waitress describes what happened after she and 11 others ran to the basement to protect themselves. a lot of praying, some crying, a lot of reassurance that everything was going to be okay. it was so fast you know from when i got down there to when the tornado came over it just went by so fast. nbc s kevin tibbles joins us from fairdale illinois. kevin, as i understand it the town is not equipped with tornado