Coranderrk
Coordinates: 37°41′02″S 145°31′19″E / 37.684007°S 145.521938°E
Coranderrk was a government reserve for Australian Aborigines in the state of Victoria between 1863 and 1924, located 50km north-east of Melbourne.
Under the protectionist policies of the time, the government provided land for Indigenous people who had been dispossessed of their traditional lands by the arrival of European settlers to the colony of Victoria since the 1830s.
The reserve was formally closed in 1924, with most residents removed to Lake Tyers Mission.
In February 1859, some Wurundjeri elders, led by Simon Wonga (aged 35) and brother Tommy Munnering (aged 24), petitioned Protector William Thomas to secure land for the Kulin at the junction of the Acheron and Goulburn rivers. Initial representations to the Victorian Government were positive, however the intervention of the most powerful squatter in Victoria, Hugh Glass, resulted in their removal to a colder site, Mohican Station, which had been abandoned as unsuitable for agriculture.
In March 1863, after 3 years of upheaval, the surviving leaders, among them Simon Wonga and William Barak, led 40 Wurundjeri, Taungurong (Goulburn River) and Bun warrung people over the Black Spur. They squatted on a traditional camping site on Badger Creek near Healesville and requested ownership of the site. They were anxious to have the land officially approved so that they could move down and establish themselves. An area of 9.6 km² was gazetted on 30 June 1863 and called 'Coranderrk', at the Aboriginal people’s suggestion. This was the name they used for the Christmas Bush (Prostanthera lasianthos), a white flowering summer plant which is indigenous to the area.
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