Victorian Historical Journal

VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 89, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2018 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is a community organisation comprising people from many fields committed to collecting, researching and sharing an understanding of the history of Victoria. The Victorian Historical Journal is a fully refereed journal dedicated to Australian, and especially Victorian, history produced twice yearly by the Publications Committee, Royal Historical Society of Victoria. PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Judith Smart and Richard Broome (Editors, Victorian Historical Journal) Jill Barnard Rozzi Bazzani Sharon Betridge Marilyn Bowler Richard Broome (Convenor) (Editor, History News) Marie Clark Jonathan Craig (Review Editor) Don Garden (President, RHSV) John Rickard Judith Smart Lee Sulkowska Noel Turner Carole Woods BECOME A MEMBER Membership of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria is open. All those with an interest in history are welcome to join. Subscriptions can be purchased at: Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A’Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Telephone: 03 9326 9288 Email: [email protected] www.historyvictoria.org.au Journals are also available for purchase online: www.historyvictoria.org.au/publications/victorian-historical-journal VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL ISSUE 289 VOLUME 89, NUMBER 1 JUNE 2018 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Victorian Historical Journal Published by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A’Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Telephone: 03 9326 9288 Fax: 03 9326 9477 Email: [email protected] www.historyvictoria.org.au Copyright © the authors and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 2018 All material appearing in this publication is copyright and cannot be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher and the relevant author. Design: Janet Boschen, Boschen Design Desktop Production: Centreforce Printer: Focus Print Group Print Post Approved: PP349181/00159 ISSN 1030 7710 The Royal Historical Society of Victoria acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government though Creative Victoria—Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. Front cover: ‘The Balconies, Grampians National Park’ (now commonly known as Grampians [Gariwerd] National Park), c. 1950 (Courtesy State Library of Victoria, H91.50/1001)’ VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 89, NUMBER 1 JUNE 2018 ARTICLES Introduction 1 Judith Smart and Richard Broome Twists and Turns: The Origins and Transformations of Melbourne’s 5 Metropolitan Press in the Nineteenth Century David Dunstan Police Use or Misuse? Police Agency and The Neglected and 27 Criminal Children’s Act 1864 Elizabeth Offer McKay’s 1891 Journey: A Window into the Victorian Mallee Back Country 45 John Burch More than just ‘Peaceful and Picturesque’: How Tuberculosis Control 67 Measures Have Preserved Ecologically Significant Land in Melbourne Rebecca Le Get Soldier Settlement at Yanakie: The Making of a Model Post-war Rural 89 Community Cheryl Glowrey Rights, Reconciliation, and the Restoration of Djabwurrung and 113 Jardwadjali Names to Grampians–Gariwerd Ben Wilkie HISTORICAL NOTES Lt James Cook on the Coast of Victoria 1770 137 Trevor Lipscombe J.T. Gellibrand and the Naming of Gellibrand Hill 153 John Daniels The Maldon Panorama 165 David Oldfield and Peter Cuffley REVIEWS The Enigmatic Mr Deakin. By Judith Brett 179 Carole Woods Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected Letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall. 181 Edited by Suzanne Robinson Joe Rich The Interior of Our Memories: A History of Melbourne’s Jewish 184 Holocaust Centre. By Steven Cooke and Donna-Lee Frieze Andrew Markus Breaking Out: Memories of Melbourne in the 1970s. Edited by 187 Susan Blackburn Seamus O’Hanlon Reckoning: A Memoir. By Magda Szubanski 189 Sharon Betridge Acland Street: The Grand Lady of St Kilda. By Judith Buckrich 191 David Dunstan The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the 193 Protectors. By Bain Attwood Fiona Davis The Vandemonian Trail: Convicts and Bushrangers in Early Victoria. 195 By Patrick Morgan Doug Morrissey The Life of John Sadleir and his Role in the Capture of Ned Kelly. 197 By Richard M.F. Sadleir Doug Morrissey Notes on Contributors 200 About the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 203 Guidelines for Contributors 204 How to become a Patron of the Victorian Historical Journal The RHSV invites you to become a patron of the journal to guarantee its future for the next 100 years. Annually: $250 $500 $1,000 Annually for the following periods I year 3 years 5 years (The RHSV is a tax-deductible entity and all contributions from patrons will be tax deductible) Please reply with your preferred pledge to Richard Broome, Chair of the Publications Committee, on [email protected] and you will be contacted regarding payment. If you are unable to become a patron at this time, please consider an RHSV membership, see http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/ and choose the ‘support us’ button on the service bar. CURRENT PATRONS Emeritus Professor Richard Broome, La Trobe University FRHSV; Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University; Jonathan Craig; Dr John Dwyer QC; Murray Johns; His Honour Paul R. Mullaly QC; Emeritus Professor John Rickard FRHSV; Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University; Adjunct Professor Judith Smart FRHSV; Carole Woods FRHSV Enhance your next book with an Index by Terri Mackenzie Professional Back of Book Indexer Member of Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Honorary Victorian Historical Journal Indexer [email protected] [email protected] The John Adams Prize To honour John D. Adams (1935–2015) FRHSV, Councillor (1966– 2005), and to use his bequest of $10,000 to the RHSV in an appropriate manner, the RHSV has created a biennial prize. Since John Adams, a lecturer in Librarianship at RMIT for 27 years, was also the honorary indexer of the Victorian Historical Journal, indexing it for the years 1954–2013, the prize will be for the best article or historical note in the journal over a two-year period, commencing with Issues 287–290 (2017 and 2018). The following terms apply to the prize: • This biennial prize will be awarded for the best article or historical note on Victorian history in the four VHJ issues over two calendar years, beginning 2017–18. • The prize be awarded for an article or historical note that illuminates a significant element of Victoria’s history, is clearly and succinctly written, and is researched from original material. • The prize offered from the Adams bequest is $300 and three years’ free membership of the RHSV, which includes hard copies of the VHJ. • A short list of five articles will be compiled by the VHJ editors active in the prize period. • Short-listing will occur at the end of each two-year period, beginning in December 2018. • Members of the RHSV Publications Committee are ineligible for the award. • Two judges will be chosen by the Publications Committee from academic and community historians and will report to the April meeting of the Publications Committee. • The John Adams Prize will be presented biennially at the RHSV AGM following its judging and will be announced in the June issues of the VHJ and History News following the AGM. Richard Broome, Chair, RHSV Publications Committee viii Introduction Judith Smart and Richard Broome The lengthy period spanned by this issue of the Victorian Historical Journal, 1770 to the early 2000s, indicates the breadth of research and interest in our state’s history. In the article section, the dominant themes are, first, drivers of social reform and political change in the rapidly growing city of Melbourne during the nineteenth century and, second, factors that have influenced the relations between land and people from the 1850s to the early 21st century. The historical notes focus on early European exploration and naming, both coastal and around Melbourne, and on the provenance of an early photographic panorama. David Dunstan’s article, ‘Twists and Turns: The Origins and Transformations of Melbourne’s Metropolitan Press in the Nineteenth Century’, traces the emergence of the city’s newspapers from humble and disparate beginnings as critics of colonial authority to key agents of political, social and commercial development, and cultural modernisation. Dunstan examines the contributions of individuals such as John Pascoe Fawkner, George Arden, George Cavanagh, William Kerr, Edward Wilson, Lauchlan Mackinnon, G.C. Levey, and the Syme brothers (Ebenezer and David). He also relates newspaper fortunes to dramatic circulation increases accompanying the population growth and economic boom following the gold-rush years, and to the ensuing challenges of the 1890s depression. The article concludes that: ‘From being the risky plaything of radical colonial hacks, the modern newspaper emerges as one of the key transformative elements of our urbanising world’. Melbourne is viewed from a different perspective in Elizabeth Offer’s ‘Police Use or Misuse? Police Agency and The Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act 1864’. Offer won the RHSV prize in Australian History in 2015 awarded to the La Trobe University student ‘who received the highest mark in the subject Australian History’. This article, based on her honours thesis, looks at city life from below. It argues that police officersmade decisions over which children to bring before a court, and often worked with and gave key evidence

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