we date our history of Events from the Month of October 1835 when our beloved father made his appearance among us... we had been in a deplorable state.
Although written under Robinson's tight editorial control, Brune and Arthur depicted scenes of beauty: "and the Native men was playing and singing about God and Jesus Christ and they were asinging bout there [sic] own country song and some of the Native people was shooting swans and Duck and Pelilcans.
And Native men was singing Godly song"[4]and abuse: "hear this I got rittes to you the same things over and over again Commandant has directed me to work and if I dont attend to it I must be put in to joal"[5] The Flinders Island Chronicle was dominated by messages of Christian indoctrination.
By late December 1837, the Aboriginal inhabitants of Flinders Island began openly defying Robinson.
[2] Thomas Brune and Walter George Arthur remained close to Robinson, despite the demise of the Chronicle.