Yarra: The History of Melbourne's Murky RiverIt was John Wedge, Batman's private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. In September 1835, he was at the Turning Basin with some Kulin and heard them identify the river as it came over the Falls as, he wrote, 'Yarrow Yarrow'. It was only some months later that Wedge discovered they had been referring to the pattern and movement of water over the Falls, not the river itself. And ever since, it has been the Yarra's fate to be misunderstood: maligned