Descendant of Victorian colonial family calls for removal of monuments to her ancestors

Suzannah Henty, a descendant of the first permanent European settlers in Victoria, at a truth-telling hearing at the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Photograph: Yoorrook Justice Commission

A descendant of the Henty family – regarded as Victoria’s earliest European settlers – has called for monuments memorialising her ancestors in Victoria’s south-west region to be removed.

Suzannah Henty, an art historian whose work focuses on anti-colonial and decolonial contemporary works, appeared at Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry on Thursday. The Yoorrook Justice Commission is holding public hearings investigating land, water and sky injustices.