Living on a massacre site: home truths and trauma at Warrigal Creek

The Balderstones’ house is just steps from a humble waterway where up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were mowed down, turning the water ‘red with blood’

• A massacre map of the frontier wars – interactive

Elizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victoria’s Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 20 metres from her house.

But that creek, Warrigal, has seen unimaginable horrors.

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