Bushrangers

Walker identifies people and events on which the characters and action of Robbery Under Arms was probably based. Walker demonstrates how Browne adapted the characters…

In a recent study of convict jargon in this journal emphasis is placed on the use of convict terms outside convict circles, particularly in the…

James Lester Burke is the most neglected Tasmanian author. Paradoxically he is also a best seller. His Martin Cash—The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land has…

The early use of bushranger in Australia has occasioned debate. The word is obviously closely linked with the verb, to range, and this note…

Discusses the poet Richard Henry 'Orion' Horne's writings on the bushranger Daniel Morgan, including his July 1864 letter to the Colonial Secretary offering to hunt…