The coast of Portland is the site of Victoria's earliest white settlement as well as the massacre of the Kilcarer Gundidj clan in a dispute over a beached whale in 1834. It took place on the beach of Allestree at Portland Bay, otherwise known to the local Indigenous people as the 'Convincing Ground'. From the Message Stick series.
The Fitzroy Stars was one of the first all Indigenous football clubs in the early 1970s and folding in the early 1990s. Many players went on to become leaders of the community and developed welfare and cultural organisations in Melbourne and across the state. After 14 years, the Fitzroy Stars football club has been resurrected and the old players reminisce on the importance of being a Fitzroy Star. It is more than a game.
A young man has to lose his family before he realises he needs help.