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Black bushranger brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor were hanged in 1901. But were they ‘wicked’ or wronged?

Historian Katherine Biber invites us to see the lives, crimes and deaths of Jimmy and Joe Governor in the context of bigger national ambitions – and...

11.07.2025 5

The Conversation

Tim Rowse

‘Shame, disgust, horror’: Kate Grenville faces her family history of stolen land in Australia – and asks us to feel it with her

Kate Grenville’s book successfully intertwines national and personal history to evoke Australia’s past – but multiculturalism challenges...

01.04.2025 10

The Conversation

Tim Rowse