Dr Rachael Weaver

ARC Future Fellow in English, College of Arts, Law, and Education, University of Tasmania

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Drawing of Ned Kelly and gang shooting at a man

Arts & Culture

Book extract

Bushrangers in their own words

Most bushrangers are best known from semi-fictional accounts written decades after their deaths, but a new book uncovers a few that told their own stories

Arts & Culture

Kangaroo hunting in colonial Australia

A new book explores how the kangaroo became a quarry, a resource and a point of violent conflict between settlers and Australia’s Aboriginal people

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