Title: Journals of G.A. Robinson, May to August 1841
First published: 1980
Description: In the mid 1800's John Batman arrived to establish a new Penal colony for the King of England and  he named this new the  Colony of Port Phillip. 
The town was named Melbourne and Melbourne today is the Capital of Victoria. 

The government of the time were hearing of the terrible treatment and murder of Aboriginal people so  the government appointed   G.A.Robinson  as an Aboriginal Protector instructing him to put into place protective  measures to protect Aboriginal people from the squatters and pastoralist. 
Augustus Robinson done nothing to protect the people he was appointed to protect instead he engaged Melbourne aboriginal people to  travel with him around the state to assist him in  engaging  Aboriginal  people to record their names,tibe names, customs and their accounts of violence from the squaters and pastoralists. 

Today however  his journals are the mosts valuable account of Victoria's pastoralist and squatters, blood thirsty  violence  against Aboriginal people. Robinson also provided a invaluable account of Aboriginal  customs, language and tribal boundaries. He records the Chief-Wunget of the Yiyar Tribe Baum Baum and his clan he also records being witness to Baum Baum becoming overseer of three clan groups being Kilkara-Gunditj, Eurite-Gunditj and Cart-Gunditj and many more other Clans and Wungets-Chiefs.
In fact his journals are that valuable they have been used in past and successful  Native Title Claims for Aboriginal people of Victoria. They are held in every University in Victoria and are as well know to Aboriginal people as J.K.Rowlings Harry Potter books. So he done nothing back then but his journals have become the window to the past that Aboriginal people can use and look through.
Subjects: Sources, Ethnology, History
Places: Australia, Victoria
People: Wunget-Chief Baum Baum of Yiyar of Mt Eckerlsey
Time periods: 1841
LC classification: DU222R6 A43 1980