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Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2008... This has been a difficult year for me partly because I took a month off in May to fly to London to do some work on the John Lang Project in the British Library. I am still trying to catch up. The publication of Legends of India was completed and work on Lang's novel Plot and Passion or The...

Women poets of the Victorian forests.
November 1, 2008... In the nineteenth century a distinctive group of seven women poets flourished in eastern Victoria. All spent their early years in forested hill country similar to that of the Dandenongs near Melbourne. They were in the main from families of pioneering settlers and traders. Nellie Clerk...

More on Donald Cameron.(Biography)
November 1, 2008... Donald Cameron was born in Armidale in 1845; his father was John Cameron and mother Ann. They were Presbyterians. according to the NSW Biographical index. I thought I had discovered Donald's father, John Cameron, as one of the earliest settlers in the New England region, on the western...

The green ticket.(Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh's travel to Australia)(Essay)
November 1, 2008... An Invitation to a Ball, Hyde Park, Sydney February 5, 1868 The then Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred--in fact the last Duke of that title before the present Duke--was in the Australian Colonies in late 1867 and early 1868. He travelled on board H.M.S. Galatea. The best account of his troubled...

An early Australian born cabinet maker: William James Packer (known as James).(Biography)
November 1, 2008... We are often given the impression that the first settlement of Sydney was a make shift camp and was often referred to as a 'penal settlement'. That was the name given by those in England who in 1787 were opposed to the settlement of New South Wales or 'Botany Bay'. The name 'penal settlement'...