Took up some paddocks in the district and bought and sold and lost land, like a lot of early colonial settlers, and eventually accumulated a number of what are now paddocks and then the homestead block, which contains the - which became the massacre site in 1910 and moved to the property then. [...] Would you mind reading out the third paragraph of your submission? 10 MS BALDERSTONE: I have, over the years, felt a growing awareness of the responsibility and gravity of caring for the massacre site in the gentlest and quietest way possible, and simultaneously, I am committed to ensuring that the truth of the massacre is told and understood more widely by Gippslanders initially, and by the 15 Vi. [...] DESC.0001.0012 MS BALDERSTONE: The changing of the name of the electorate of McMillan, which we are not actually Sale, Yarram is not part of, but there was support locally of us toward that and a lot of us put letters or submissions in there because of the obvious connections of McMillan with the early history of Gippsland and that was 5 the (audio lost) recognised that people sort of made that pu. [...] The fence is there in the bottom of the photo but it clearly spreads out a lot further and that's a site where the homestead was built, the woolshed, all the - a lot of infrastructure of the property is 45 in that area. [...] MS BALDERSTONE: I think we have all got a duty to do it as Victorians and 15 Australians, to look at where we live, investigate the story of European colonisation, think about what it meant for the people that were there, and what happened and what's happened to the landscape, and acknowledge that story and then also the benefits so many of us have had because of that tragic beginning to Australia.
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