The Gippsland massacres were a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people, an Aboriginal Australian people living in East Gippsland, Victoria, committed by European settlers and the Aboriginal Police during the Australian frontier wars.
The perpetrators often did not record or speak about their actions for fear of prosecution and the death penalty under colonial law, as happened after the Myall Creek massacre.
The names of many of the perpetrators remain on the rivers, roads and islands of Gippsland.
[1][2][3] Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick wrote in a letter home to his relatives in England in 1846: The following list of massacres was compiled by settlers from white perpetrator sources such as letters and diaries, and thus does not take into account knowledge passed by word-of-mouth by the Gunai Kurnai people.
[6] In 2020, the Wellington Shire Council voted against removing the monuments to Angus McMillan.