1836 John Batman murdered mummy then me

On the 4th April 1828 Hobart Times Courier reported – “Mr Batman hastened creeping on his hands and feet within twenty yards of them before the blacks discovered him, he then endeavoured to make them stop but to no purpose, one in the act of throwing a spear, when he fired in his own defence. The man fell to the ground but Title Painting John Batman murdered Mummy then Me “On Friday morning we left the place for my farm with the two men, woman and child, but found it impossible that the two formers could walk, and after trying them by every means in my power, for some time, found that I could not get them on, so I was obliged to shoot them. “Quoted in A Campbell, John Batman, and the Aborigines p.32. Governor Arthur (1784-1854) Van Dieman’s Land When Governor Arthur received the above report Arthur scribbled anxiously on the page… “Shoots wounded natives because they could not keep up, much slaughter to account for” Madonna and Child Batman fancied himself a good Christian man and befriended Reverand Andrew Love who arrived from England to with a brief to establish Aboriginal Missions in Geelong. Camping together upon arrive along the Yarra River. They waxed lyrical in historical accounts about the first white women to set foot on Australian land and a key milestone. The elevation of good women within their societies, religions, beliefs located in juxtaposition to the brutal heart-breaking reality. I have drawn on elements of this in my painting.