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Adrian Black and Melissa Meehan

Australia must confront bloody colonial past

Yoorrook Chair Eleanor Bourke commended the descendants for coming forward for truth-telling. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A landowner of an Indigenous massacre site is urging Australia to investigate and confront its colonial past.

Elizabeth Balderstone lives a short walk from a water bank where scores of Gunaikurnai people were murdered by settlers in eastern Victoria's Gippsland in 1846.

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