Later Life
McMillan later squatted on land in Gippsland for his own pastoral requirements. He was responsible for several massacres of Indigenous Australians who resisted alienation of their land and confronted the European explorers and settlers. Massacres of the Kurnai/Gunai people led by McMillan occurred at Nuntin, Boney Point, Butchers Creek, Maffra, Warrigal Creek, and other unspecified locations in Gippsland.
In 1857 he married and had two sons Ewan and Angus. From October 1859 to November 1860 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly for South Gippsland, less than a decade after Victoria was first declared a separate colony.
Bushfires and drought caused havoc with McMillan's financial interests and despite being recognised as the discoverer of Gippsland, McMillan died without an inheritance on 18 May 1865 on the banks of Iguana Creek while surveying what is now the Dargo Road in East Gippsland.
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