OPENING OF LAKE TYERS COMMUNITY - 1962 FOOTAGE A brief history of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal community South East Victoria - the Survivers of Gippsland Killing Fields 'Aborigines were granted the first land rights title in Australia at Lake Tyers, in East Gippsland in 1962'. The traditional owners of the land which includes what is now called Lake Tyers in East Gippsland are the Krowathunkooloong clan - one of five forming the Gunaikurnai nation, who largely resisted white settlement in the area.