Descendant of Victorian colonial family calls for removal of monuments to her ancestors

Suzannah Henty says the spray-painting of monuments shows they continue to have a damaging impact on Indigenous people

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A descendant of the Henty family - regarded as Victoria's earliest European settlers - has called for monuments memorialising her ancestors in Victoria's south-west region to be removed.

Suzannah Henty, an art historian whose work focuses on anti-colonial and decolonial contemporary works, appeared at Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry on Thursday. The Yoorrook Justice Commission is holding public hearings investigating land, water and sky injustices.

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