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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 .
The public hangings of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenneer, which took place in Melbourne on 20 th 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.
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.
1 de jul. de 2023 · Tunnerminnerwait, Maulboyheenner, Pyterruner, Truganini and Planobeena were five members of a group of 16 palawa* Aboriginal people who had been selected from the 88 survivors on wybalenna (Flinders Island) of the three-decade long genocidal war in Tasmania, to be brought across to Victoria by George Augustus Robinson to ‘civilise ...
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.
18 de jul. de 2016 · The story is a tragic one about two Tasmanian Aboriginal men – Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, also known as Jack and Bob – who were executed for the murder of two European whalers. I was a co-author with Kate Auty, a legal scholar undertaking a forensic study of the arrest, evidence and court processes.
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner’s story reveals key aspects of Aboriginal history in Melbourne.
