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Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan (eds), Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, edited by Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan NewSouth Books, 215 pp., ISBN: 9781742235752, p/bk, RRP AUS$34.99 On 10 June 1838 twelve men, “in an unprovoked act of violent terror” (p. xi), committed an atrocity known today as the…

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Terry Smyth, Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia’s Greatest Lawman

Terry Smyth, Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia’s Greatest Lawman Ebury Press, 2016, 352 pp., ISBN: 9780857986825, p/bk, AUS$34.99 Award-winning writer Terry Smyth has taken on the extraordinary, and regularly overlooked, story of Edward Denny Day in Denny Day: The…

Law and order in Sydney

The Labor Crisis - the riot in George Street 19 September 1890. Image courtesy of the State Library of Victoria, IAN01/10/90/1 Monday marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, or the Great Charter, which has been widely recognised as the most…