| Myall Creek Massacre Memorial | Uncle Colin Isaac | Aunty Margaret Blacklock | Keith Munro |

Monday, 2 June 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Content warning: This episode of Doin' Time contains audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody. 

 

This show is a special broadcast on remembering the Myall Creek massacre, which happened on the 10th of June 1838. 

The Myall Creek memorial site, which opened in June 2000 in an act of truth telling and reconcilliation. This show commemorates the 25 year anniversary of the erection of this monument. 

We hear from Uncle Collin Isaac, the artist who created the art at the Myall Creek memorial. Collin Isaac is excited by the challenge to work in a new medium, and offers his artistic talents as a means of bringing people together. 

We also speak with Auntie Sue Blacklock, a decendant of the victims and survivors of the massacre, Sue Blacklock speaks on her understanding of her families need for somewhere to grieve, believing that healing could only come through acknowledgment of the past where desendants of perpetrators truly express sorrow for those who suffered in the capacity to give in their hearts. 

Lastly we hear from Keith Monro, cochair of the Myall Creek committee.