FROM VICTORIA’S GOLD RUSHES to its bushrangers, English artist William Strutt’s (1825-1915) paintings captured the state’s colonial history in vivid scenes and sketches. William arrived at Melbourne ...
In short: The Heritage Council of NSW is looking at placing the graves of two bushrangers on the state heritage registry. A former police officer has called for the same status for the graves of two ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Between 1788 and 1868, almost 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia for crimes in Britain and ...
On the night of 19 November 1863, three bushrangers – Ben Hall, John Gilbert and John O’Meally – approached Goimbla Homestead, near Eugowra in central western New South Wales. Moving swiftly under the ...
Bushrangers form a prominent yet enigmatic group of historical figures in pre-Federation Australia, likely to have had their imprecisely documented exploits further obscured by the popular myths that ...
In 1902 the notorious Kenniff brothers were convicted for one of the grisliest double murders in Queensland colonial history and one was hanged for the crime: it was a brutal crime and a brutal ...