In 1838 George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, established an Aboriginal Protectorate in the Port Phillip District with the aim of encouraging Indigenous people to settle in prescribed areas and so minimise conflict between them and British squatters. It was hoped that the Indigenous people would adopt Christianity and a settled agricultural way of…
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Government Camp Tour
Bendigo’s National Trust Branch is celebrating this year’s Australian Heritage Festival with a tour of the Castlemaine Gold Commissioner’s Camp, on Saturday 27 April.
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A Full House
A Full House can mean many things. It could be at the Theatre, an accommodation venue, or even if playing a game of Poker! For our group, it was simply wondering what to do once we had used up all available space in the room. With the week having gone so quickly it seemed that…
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