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Murderers Flat, Lubra Creek and Massacre Bay: Victoria is scattered with monuments and place names with violent or offensive origins.

Murderers Flat, Lubra Creek and Massacre Bay: Victoria is scattered with monuments and place names with violent or offensive origins.

Suzannah Henty says the spray-painting of monuments shows they continue to have a damaging impact on Indigenous people

Victoria's truth-telling inquiry has met near the state's cradle of European settlement and the site of its first recorded massacre of Indigenous peoples.

Victoria’s truth-telling commission has held a ceremonial hearing on Gunditjmara Country as it begins inquiries into historic injustices related to land, skies, and waters. The Yoorrook Justice Commission travelled to the site where colonisation in the state began, hearing evidence of theft and massacres from local Elders and Traditional Owners.

Truth-telling between First Nations and non-Indigenous people is a vital step in recognising past colonial wrongdoing. And research has found it is also a step towards self-determination and healing.

The people of Portland Bay, black and white, shed a conflicted past to pay homage together to a magical message from Antarctica - the Upwelling.

For decades Blak media have been truth-telling for anyone prepared to pick up a paper, turn the dial or log on, but now their reach is growing.

White invaders drawn to a bountiful landscape unleashed a murderous assault on Victoria’s First Peoples in a brutal, illegal land grab that remains a stain on the state’s history.

White invaders drawn to a bountiful landscape unleashed a murderous assault on Victoria’s First Peoples in a brutal, illegal land grab that remains a stain on the state’s history.