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Nicole Coles is a non-Indigenous person from the privileged colonial majority. In this submission, she reflects on her upbringing in ignorance of the true history of the invasion of the Australian continent, her efforts to support Aboriginal Australians, and the importance of learning from the original inhabitants.
This submission calls for Yoorrook to publish the record of the story of William Buckley.
* The Reminiscences of James ‘William’ Buckley can be found on page 24 of a submission from James Gordon Barrett.
Dr Katrina Kell, a researcher, author and fourth-generation matrilineal descendant of Captain James Liddell, who brought Edward Henty to Gunditjmara Country in November 1834 on board ‘the Thistle’, leading to the first permanent European settlement in what would become the State of Victoria. This submission is part of her evidence presented at Yoorrooks Descendants Day hearing.
Elizabeth Balderstone is the current owner of a property in Gippsland on which the ‘Warrigal Creek’ massacre occurred in 1843. This submission is part of her evidence presented at Yoorrooks Descendants Day hearing.