In May, the council endorsed a proposal from Professor Watson's daughters Kirrakee Watson and Tamara Pomery to create a limestone sculpture near the existing monument, at a cost of $15,000. In March, the Kingston District Council agreed in-principle to support the Telling the Whole Story project. "All survivors were escorted back to Goolwa and they were hospitably treated by the local Aboriginal people," Dr Krichauff said. The fate of these shipwreck survivors contrasted with that of the survivors of the wreck of the Fanny in 1838 in a similar area. "The broader mainstream culture and society are slowly realising the depths of the offences that have occurred to Aboriginal peoples," Professor Watson said. Professor Watson has led the Telling the Whole Story project, along with Alison Stillwell from the local National Trust branch. "Many of these monuments represent a dehumanisation of Aboriginal peoples and have always been offensive to us," says Irene Watson, a Tanganekald, Meintangk and Bungandidj woman who is also a law professor at the University of South Australia. The new installations will sit alongside a 1966 monument that says all survivors of the 1840 Maria shipwreck were murdered in a massacre by members of the Milmendura clan of the Tanganekald people of the Ngarrindjeri nation. As part of the Telling the Whole Story project - a collaboration between First Nations of the South East and the Kingston South East branch of the National Trust - interpretive signs and a sculpture will be installed in a new native garden in Kingston South East.
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