Why we are Walking for Truth

Friday, May 23, 2025, 06:04 AM | Source: Pursuit

Jennifer Balint, Barry Judd, James Waghorne, Mark Stern

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In 1834, the Henty brothers established the first permanent European settlement in Victoria at Portland on unceded Gunditjmara Country.

This marked the beginning of violent colonisation in the state, and the dispossession, injustice and systemic racism that continues to impact First Peoples today.

Old painting of people unloading a ship onto a beach
Edward Henty unloading supplies at Portland, beginning the colonisation of what is now the State of Victoria. Picture: Public Records Office

Nearly two centuries later, this history is being formally acknowledged.

The story of the Henty brothers is just one of many accounts of settler violence and Aboriginal strength and survival recorded through the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Australia...


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