Racist place names in Victoria: the push for change
Murderers Flat, Lubra Creek and Massacre Bay: Victoria is scattered with monuments and place names with violent or offensive origins.
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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.