A Series of Unwarranted Events
A Series of Unwarranted Events portrays stories of the Gunditjmara people that expose realities of life during the colonisation of their Country. The European invasion of western Victoria - where Gunditjmara Country is located - was violent, with killings and massacres of Aboriginals too many to count.
Stories of skulls nailed to doorways, and rivers running red, serve both as a haunting reminder of a past unforgivable, and as witness to the strength and resilience of the Gunditjmara – never ceasing to submission, no matter the condition or consequence.
I have heard tales told, and some things I have seen that would form as dark a page as ever you could read in the book of history — but I thank God, I have never participated in them — If I could remedy these things I would speak loudly though it would cost me all I am worth in the world, but as I cannot I will keep aloof and know nothing, and say nothing.
– Henry Howard Meyrick, Journal dated 1840–47
A Series of Unwarranted Events portrays stories of the Gunditjmara people that expose realities of life during the colonisation of their Country. The European invasion of western Victoria - where Gunditjmara Country is located - was violent, with killings and massacres of Aboriginals too many to count.
Stories of skulls nailed to doorways, and rivers running red, serve both as a haunting reminder of a past unforgivable, and as witness to the strength and resilience of the Gunditjmara – never ceasing to submission, no matter the condition or consequence.
I have heard tales told, and some things I have seen that would form as dark a page as ever you could read in the book of history — but I thank God, I have never participated in them — If I could remedy these things I would speak loudly though it would cost me all I am worth in the world, but as I cannot I will keep aloof and know nothing, and say nothing.
– Henry Howard Meyrick, Journal dated 1840–47