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Wombeetch Puyuun, a unique friendship and the push to recognise a monument erected in his honour

Wombeetch Puyuun and James Dawson became lifelong friends. (Supplied: Camperdown and District Historical Society)

Indigenous man Wombeetch Puyuun, known to the local white settlers as Camperdown George, stood in a courtroom in south-west Victoria in 1877.

The charge against him, according to the Hampden Guardian newspaper, was "being noisy and disagreeable … having, by some inconsiderate people, been supplied with intoxicating liquor".

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