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Michael J Murphy
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The Australian 'bush' and national identity
From the nineteenth century Australian writers and artists looked towards the Australian bush to help create a national identity.

Michael Murphy
Nov 6, 202412 min read
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Exile and Punishment: A Brief History of the Moreton Bay Penal Colony
Moreton Bay penal colony (1824-1939) was designed to alienate and punish convicts.

Georgia Murphy
Jan 4, 20248 min read
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Executed for the most heinous of crimes: Myall Creek Murderers hanged 18 December, 1838.
On 10 June , 1838, at least 28 Indigenous men, women and chidren were bound together and led away to be murdered at Myall Creek in...

Michael Murphy
Dec 17, 20236 min read
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Eureka Stockade: beginning of Australian democracy, or localised riot?
At dawn on 3 December 1854 government soldiers stormed a barricade erected at Ballarat by miners of the Victorian goldfields. In a very...

Michael Murphy
Dec 2, 20235 min read
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A Living Hell: Surgeon Superintendents Changed Convict Transportation to Australia.
The decision by the British Government in 1786 to establish a convict settlement in New South Wales initiated a series of voyages that...

Michael Murphy
Nov 19, 20237 min read
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