At midday on January 20, 3CR will broadcast live from the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Memorial on the corner of Victoria St & Franklin St, Melbourne - the site where these two Aboriginal freedom fighters were executed 184 years ago.

Hear community members honour the memory of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and share stories and songs of resistance to the colonisation of this continent past and present.

Since 2006, the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Commemoration Committee (TMCC) has held a public ceremony every year to pay respect to the tens of thousands of First Nations men, women, and children who were slaughtered during the colonisation process - a process whose impacts continue to profoundly affect First Nations people today.  Publicly acknowledging these historical and ongoing injustices is one small but important step toward addressing this deeply unsatisfactory reality.

In 2016, Melbourne City Council erected the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner monument at the site where these two Indigenous freedom fighters were executed on January 20 in 1842 - the first two people hung in Victoria for resisting British colonisation.

The TMCC warmly invites you to attend the 2026 commemoration and all the details can be found on their Facebook page.