by Graham Seal
Meredith, J., 1996, Breaker’s Mate: Will Ogilvie in Australia, Sydney: Kangaroo Press
Meredith, J. & Whalan, R., 1979, Frank the Poet, Ascot Vale: Red Rooster Press
Moger, E., 1840 (28 January–18 March), letter, National Library of Australia, manuscript reference no. NLA MS 5919
Murphy, S. & Muller, A., 1997, Fairbridge Village Interpretation Plan, Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, Curtin University, Perth
Nicholson, J., 2004, The Incomparable Captain Cadell, Sydney: Allen & Unwin
O’Reilly, J.B., 1879, Moondyne, Boston: Pilot Publishing
Pageant of Humour, c. 1920, Sydney: Gayle Publishing Company
Paterson, A.B. (Banjo) (ed.), 1906, Old Bush Songs, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Pederson, H., & Woorunmurra, B., 1995, Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance, Broome: Magabala Books
Redmond, A.J., 2008, ‘Captain Cook meets General Macarthur in the Northern Kimberley: Humour and ritual in an Indigenous Australian life-world’, Anthropological Forum, Special issue: You’ve got to be joking! Anthropological perspectives on humour and laughter, vol. 3, no. 18
Roderick, C., 1982, The Real Henry Lawson, Adelaide: Rigby
Ross, J. (ed), The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing, Camberwell, Vic: Viking
Scott, B., 1976, Complete Book of Australian Folklore, Dee Why West, NSW: Summit Books
Seal, G., 1977, On the Steps of the Dole-Office Door, (recording) Sydney: Larrikin Records
——2001, More Urban Myths, Sydney: HarperCollins
——2002, Tell ’em I Died Game: The legend of Ned Kelly, Flemington: Hyland House
Smith, W.R., 1930, Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, London: Harrup
Sullivan, C.W. III, 2001, Fenian Diary: Denis B. Cashman aboard the Hougoumont, 1867–1868, Dublin: Wolfhound Press
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Van Den Boogaerde, P., 2009, Shipwrecks of Madagascar, New York: Strategic Book Publishing
Wannan, B., 1976, Come in Spinner, Melbourne: John Curry, O’Neill
Warung, P., 1891, ‘The Liberation of the First Three’, The Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 594, pp. 21–2
Wells, T.E. & Howe, M., 1818, The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers of Van Diemen’s Land, Hobart: Andrew Bent
Wemyss, T., 1837, Narrative of the Melancholy Shipwreck of the Ship Charles Eaton, Stockton: Robinson
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JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS
Aboriginal History, vol. 9, part 1, 1985
Argus, 30 October 1878
——19 April 1880
——16 May 1881
——20 April 1892
——7 September 1901
——15 October 1902
——23 July 1918
——8 December 1956
Australian Lutheran Almanac, 1939
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill), 24 February 1943
Bendigo Advertiser, 7 April 1874
Bulletin, Christmas 1893
——March 1898
——November 1917
Burra Record, 11 February 1931
Capricornian, 14 November 1908
Clarence and Richmond Examiner, 6 December 1902
Courier-Mail, 14 January 1937
Daylesford Express, 4 July 1867a
——16 July 1867b
Forbes & Parkes Gazette, 18 October 1898
Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 1999
Illustrated Australian News, no. 29, 1 July 1880
Imperial Songster, no. 97, 1907
Keep in Touch (published by The Sisters of Charity of Australia), vol. 13, no. 4, December 2012
Mail (Adelaide), 19 December 1925
Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 2 September 1843
——1 June 1889
Morning Bulletin, 4 September 1894
Narromine News and Trangie Advocate, 16 February 1934
Nepean Times, 1 April 1933
News (Adelaide), 28 June 1927
North Queensland Register, 18 September 1976
Northern Standard (Darwin), 29 September 1931
Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 27 February 1979
Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, 3 October 1835
Queanbeyan Age, 7 August 1903
Railroad, October 1928 and various editions throughout 1930s and 1940s
Relative Thoughts, 2009, quarterly journal of the Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group Inc., vol. 13, no. 1
South Bourke and Mornington Journal, 19 March 1879
Sunday Times (Sydney), 9 October 1898
Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 1867
——4 August 1869
——29 December 1933
——27 June 1942
Sydney Stock and Station Journal, 27 May 1902
Townsville Daily Bulletin, 4 June 1924
West Australian, 14 December 1891
WEBSITES
Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial combines a shrine, a world-class museum, and an extensive archive.
http://www.awm.gov.au
Cape Otway Lighthouse
Cape Otway Lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia. In operation since 1848, it is perched on towering sea cliffs where Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean collide. For thousands of immigrants, after many months at sea, Cape Otway was their first sight of land after leaving Europe.
www.lightstation.com
Flinders Ranges Research
Flinders Ranges Research undertakes research, evaluates information, presents reports and writes material for publication of South Australian history.
www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/hoffnungsthal.htm.
Frank the Poet—Francis MacNamara 1811–1861
A research project by Mark Gregory.
www.frankthepoet.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/articles.html
The Legend of the Stradbroke Island Galleon
A research project by Brad Horton, Greg Jefferys and Cliff Rosendahl.
See also Jefferys, 2007.
www.stradbrokeislandgalleon.com
The National Museum of Australia
The National Museum of Australia has 314 convict love tokens in its collection. These tokens were made by convicts around the time of their sentencing and were given to friends and loved ones as mementos.
www.love-tokens.nma.gov.au.
The Newgate Calendar
A searchable series of stories about criminals from the 17th century and earlier through to 1840, this is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the criminal underworld of 18th-century Britain. http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/newgatecalendar
Queensland Heritage Register
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, Queensland Government, is responsible for managing the health of the environment to protect Queensland’s unique ecosystems, including its landscapes and waterways, as well as its native plants and animals and biodiversity.
https://heritage-register.ehp.qld.gov.au/placeDetail.html?siteId=33360
WA Maritime Myths
A blog dealing with Western Australian wreck sites and early Dutch explorers.
http://wamaritimemyths.wordpress.com/2007/11/
Western Australian Folklore Archive
The Western Australian Folklore Archive, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, records, preserves and gives the public access to the rich folk traditions, past and present, of Western Australians.
http://john.curtin.edu.au/folklore
Picture credits
1: WIDE BROWN LAND
Relation ov iovrnal dv voyage de Bontekoe avx Indes Orientales [Relationship or log of Bontekoe’s
trip to the East Indies]. Separately paginated section of Thévenot’s Relations de divers voyages curieux that comprises the accounts of the voyages of Bontekoe and Pelsaert, the latter containing the third state of the map of Australia with the line of the Tropic of Capricorn added.
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Neg: 855351
2: UPON THE FATAL SHORE
Convict love token from James Branch (undated). The engraved side features the text ‘Love & Union/JAB/James Blanch/Ann Harley/SACRED TO FRIENDSHIP’ around a design of two hearts joined by a ribbon. The reverse side is the obverse of a cartwheel penny showing the bust, in profile, of a man.
National Museum of Australia
3: PLAINS OF PROMISE
Wood engraving, 1876. The Opposum-Hill rush, near Berlin, Victoria, published in The Australian Sketcher, June 10 1876. The upper view is of Main Street showing timber and bark buildings, the Shamrock Hotel at the left and next to it J. McLeish’s store. Further along is the Bank of Victoria and another store with the sign ‘Kirwan’ and a Skittle Saloon at the right hand side. A sign advertising ‘Mrs Sibley tonight’ is on the front of the Shamrock Hotel.
State Library of Victoria
4: A FAIR GO
Show at Hammondville, 1937.
State Library of New South Wales
5: HOW WE TRAVEL THE LAND
Horse-drawn coach with passengers outside Cobb & Co. Ltd, Coach Proprietors, Booking Office. Place unknown, but probably the Eastern Goldfields.
State Library of Western Australia, 2946B/1
6: DOING IT TOUGH
Happy Valley unemployed camp, La Perouse c. 1932.
State Library of New South Wales
7: HOME OF THE WEIRD
Henry ‘The Breaker’ Morant (1865–1902). A drover and horseman who began contributing verse and ballads to Sydney Bulletin in September 1891, he becoming widely known by his pen name ‘The Breaker’.
Blue Mountains City Library
8: ROMANCING THE SWAG
Studio portrait of a swagman, Melbourne, Victoria, c. 1887. (Lindt, J.
W. ( John William), 1845–1926, photographer).
National Library of Australia, vn4312961
9: AFTER THE KELLYS
Wood engraving, 1880. Ned Kelly (sketched as he was leaving Benalla), published in The Illustrated Australian News, July 3 1880.
State Library of Victoria
10: THE CHILD IN THE BUSH
Wood engraving, 1867. ‘The Lost Children of Daylesford’ (A. C. Cooke (Albert Charles), 1836–1902, artist; W. H. Harrison, engraver) published in The Illustrated Australian News, October 26 1867. Shows men finding remains of lost children in hollow of large tree.
State Library of Victoria
11: LARGER THAN LIFE
Lobby card, 1921. Playgoers Pictures, Inc. presents J.P. McGowan in Discontented Wives. The caption reads: ‘We’ll keep it a secret from Ruth until it’s assayed.’
Western Silent Films Lobby Card Collection, Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
New Haven, CT
12: WORKING FOR A LAUGH
Drawing, 1933. ‘For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!’ (Stan Cooke, artist), part of the Stan Cross Archive of cartoons and drawings, 1912–1974. Reproduced with permission of Mr Simon Cross. National Library of Australia, vn4306283