14. Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner

Truth Be Told Podcast - 3 Brothers Production · Jul 23, 2026 · 22m

On the morning of the 20th of January 1842, around five thousand people gathered on Franklin Street in Melbourne to watch two men hanged. It was the first execution the settlement had ever carried out. It didn't go cleanly. One of the men strangled slowly at the end of the rope, in front of the entire crowd. Both were buried in unmarked graves. Today, that exact spot sits underneath the Queen Victoria Market — where most visitors walking through have absolutely no idea what's beneath their feet. Their names were Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner. Both were Tasmanian Aboriginal men who had…