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    • Professor Ken Gelder

    Emeritus Professor of English, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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    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

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    Arts & Culture

    Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas?

    While the Victorian author didn’t actually invent Christmas, he did renew – and redefine – its generous spirit

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    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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