The Wire

For seven years now, two of Melbourne’s Aboriginal resistance fighters have been commemorated at the site where they were hanged in 1842. Now plans are afoot to build a memorial to the warriors Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner on Melbourne’s Franklin Street.

The two men, Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, had taken part in a six-week guerilla warfare against the expansion of the British colony.Activists say it is time to remember the Aboriginal fighters who died in the frontier wars against the expansion of the British colony.