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# I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River"
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- Published: 2026-09-16T13:36:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Geography, Art, Observations, Ethnography

I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River". The author is tentatively identified as a certain J. Phillips. The piece belongs to the collection of the State Library of New South Wales.

The place depicted lies in the north of the present-day state of Victoria, on lands where peoples of the Kulin group lived. The sheep station, that is, a herdsmen's post attached to a pastoral holding, is here a mechanism of interaction between Europeans and Aboriginal people: the graziers occupied the river valleys that were the most suitable for pasture and at the same time the most important to the indigenous inhabitants, because that was where water and food were to be found.

The year 1845 falls ten years after the beginning of the mass incursion of graziers into the Port Phillip District, and it is precisely these years that are considered in Victoria to be the time of the sharpest clashes on the frontier of settlement