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‘There Were Vegetables Every Year Mr Green was Here’ Right Behaviour and the Struggle for Autonomy at Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve

While land was the dominant factor in Indigeneous-settler encounters in Australia, right behaviour played an important role on the Aboriginal side, which has often been underplayed by historians. This article focuses on Coranderrk reserve in Victoria around 1880 and listens to the voices of Aboriginal witnesses embedded in a parliamentary inquiry to explore right behaviour, which was expressed in complaints over rations and governance. This article argues, using a complex view of patron-client relations, that while the issuing of rations had been seen as a site of white power, at Coranderrk it provided a vehicle for Aboriginal power.