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A glorious sight – The Lemnos days of Tasmania's Private Roland Newitt

As we approach the annual Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial service in Albert Park to be held on 12th August, it was fortuitous that few weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet Elizabeth Connor, the daughter of Roland Newitt, an Australian veteran of both world wars. ....

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'A visceral feeling': how a young editor discovered the Australian classic A Fortunate Life | Australian books

Wendy Jenkins, who has died aged 70, took some unpromising typed pages from a pile of unsolicited manuscripts and was immediately captivated ....

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Rare soldier's diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years

Rare soldier s diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years
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McNally s diary is the only account by an ordinary soldier of life in the penal colonies, says Professor Sharpe.
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A soldier s diary disintegrating in Ireland s national library has revealed disturbing evidence of an undocumented massacre of Aboriginal people in Tasmania in the colony s early years.
The diary belonged to Private Robert McNally, posted to Van Diemen s Land in the 1820s, and records in gritty detail colonial life and encounters with settlers and a notorious bushranger.
But it s his account of his part in the cover up a massacre of men and women on March 21, 1827, near Campbell Town in the Northern Midlands, that stunned University of Tasmania history professor Pam Sharpe. ....

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