Portrait of Tasmanian Aboriginal Tunnerminnerwait, one of the first people to be hung in Victoria. Copy pic from the State Library archives... Copied Thursday June 7 2012 Tunnaminnerwate (aka Jack) Portrait by Thomas Bock (1831-35) Drawing, graphite and watercolour

Tunnerminnerwait. Photo: Thomas Bock



The City of Melbourne has flagged spending up to $155,000 on a memorial to two Aboriginal men who in 1842 were the city’s first people to be publicly executed.


Supporters praised a recommendation that the permanent marker to Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner be built on a sliver of land at the corner of Franklin and Victoria streets.


Close to RMIT and the City Baths, it is believed to be the actual hanging site.


Portrait of Tasmanian aboriginal Maulboyheener, one of the first people to be hung in Victoria. Copy pic from the State Library archives. Maulboyheener (aka Timmy) Portrait by Thomas Bock (1831-35) Drawing, graphite and watercolour

Maulboyheener. Photo: Thomas Bock



On January 20, in 1842, 5000 locals watched as the Tasmanians were hanged for the murder of two whale hunters after a six week battle with colonists in the Dandenongs and Mornington Peninsula.