What happened at The Hummocks near Wando Vale?

At The Hummocks near Wando Vale, the Whyte brothers (William, George, Pringle, James, and John) carried out a massacre of the Konongwootong Gundidj clan of Aboriginal people. This violent event, which included men, women, and children, resulted in the slaughter of all but one member of the clan.1

This atrocity was part of a broader period of brutal frontier guerrilla warfare that occurred in Victoria between 1830 and the mid-1840s as European pastoralists expanded into Indigenous territories.1