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THE CONVINCING GROUND is a new
2 part documentary which Richard Frankland, John Foss and Daniel
King produced for ABC Messagestick in 2006. The programs were
broadcast on ABC TV and ABC2 in February, 2007.
THE CONVINCING GROUND examines the
history and cultural impact of one of Victoria's
first massacres near Portland in 1834 when a group of whalers
attacked and killed members of the Kilkarer Gilga as they feasted
on the meat of a beached whale.
This 2 part, half hour
documentary features interviews with Aboriginal elders, members of
the Gunditjmara community plus noted historians Ian Clark and
Professor Lynette Russell.
Judge North commented in the
historic Native Title Agreement which gave the Gunditjmara people
their land back in March 2007.
"To the Gunditjmara People
the agreement vindicates their claim for recognition as the right
people for the country. They have a history of defending their
country against the settlers stretching back to white contact in
about the mid 1830s. Many Gunditjmara people were massacred on
Gunditjmara land at the Convincing Ground by whalers bent on
protecting their commercial interests. The circumstances of history
have forced the Gunditjmara People to defend their culture and
their rights. In the early evidence hearing Eileen Alberts told the
Court “We’re fighting Gunitjmara. We’ll continue to fight. This is
our land. We belong to the land. We don’t own it. We don’t own it;
it owns us.” In the 1840s the Gunditjmara People fought the
Eumeralla Wars against dispossession by Europeans. That occurred in
the very place in which we sit today. John Lovett told how the
police camped here at Mt Eccles to quell the uprising. In 1981
Lorraine Onus and Christina Frankland, two Gunditjmara women,
fought all the way to the High Court of Australia to protect their
cultural rights against damage by the construction of the Alcoa
smelter in Gunditjmara country: Onus & Anor v Alcoa of
Australia Ltd (1982) 149 CLR 2, and the fight to protect the
significance of the Convincing Ground continues
today."
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