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Tunnerminnerwait (c.1812–1842) was an Australian Aboriginal resistance fighter and Parperloihener clansman from Tasmania. He was also known by several other names including Pevay , Jack of Cape Grim , Tunninerpareway and renamed Jack Napoleon Tarraparrura by George Robinson .
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner’s story reveals key aspects of Aboriginal history in Melbourne.
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were two Tasmanian Aboriginal men who were brought to the colony of Victoria in 1839 by George Augustus Robinson. In 1841, they were among a group of Aboriginal guerrilla resistance fighters who fought throughout Victoria.
The public hangings of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenneer, took place in Melbourne on 20th January 1842, were one of the biggest injustices of Australian History. These two aborigines were the first people hanged by the Government of Port Phillip district.
15 de mar. de 2017 · Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were two Palawa men who were executed for the killing of two whalers. They were executed at a time when frontier wars between Koorie and colonist populations were raging across the mainland and systematic genocide had been undertaken across Tasmania.
Tunnerminnerwait (left) and Maulboyheenner (right). Supplied: City of Melbourne. In 1841, seven years after the colonial occupation of the Port Phillip District began, two Aboriginal men from Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), were convicted of the murder of two whale-hunters in the Western Port area.
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were the first people to be hanged by the Government in the District of Port Phillip, in 1842. a total of six people were hanged that year.
