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Colonial impact register

Type: Exhibit
Size: 57.70 KB
Date: 28 March 2024
Topic
Land Injustice

Suzannah Henty, “In the soil that nurtures us: A certain death to the colonial myth,” Index Journal, 11 August 2021

Type: Exhibit
Size: 4.50 MB
Date: 28 March 2024
Topic
Land Injustice

Suzannah Henty, “My family have been celebrated as pioneers but I knew their colonial history wasn’t fully told,” The Guardian, 18 July 2020

Type: Exhibit
Size: 2.69 MB
Date: 28 March 2024
Topic
Land Injustice

Outline of evidence of Suzannah Henty

Suzannah Henty is a sixth-generation patrilineal descendant of James Henty (1800–1882), one of the Henty Brothers and early coloniser of Gunditjmara Country in Southwest Victoria. Her family has been celebrated and remembered as establishing the first settlement in Victoria.

This submission offers an acknowledgement of the Henty legacy, and details her opinion on ongoing land injustice, and colonial memorialisation.

Type: Statement
Size: 1.11 MB
Date: 28 March 2024
Topic
Land Injustice

Transcript – Land, sky and waters hearing 28 March 2024

Type: Transcript
Size: 624.73 KB
Date: 28 March 2024
Topic
Land Injustice