The Lady Bushranger: Remembering Australia’s Forgotten Female Outlaw Bushrangers have claimed their place in history as the Robin Hoods of Australia’s colonial past. Unless they were women, then they have no place in history at all. Meet Jessie Hickman, the country’s most formidable and forgotten female outlaw! She had five aliases and she ran a […]
A Gentleman of the Road-
Four years after the establishment of the Department of Mines, it bore little resemblance to the tiny Mining Branch which had started operation within the Department of Lands and Surveys in Perth WA. Mr Patrick Pelly, a clerk with the Department, was remembered as ‘a reserved, courteous and obliging old fellow’, however he was without […]