Core of My Heart, My Country by Maggie Mackellar
Henry Lawson has a lot to answer for. His drover’s wife, and her ilk, reinforced and perpetuated the stereotype of the frontier being no place for a woman. Yet women were of course very much present at the boundaries of settlement. And their experiences moved far beyond the confines of the domestic house and garden. …
News Flash! Sir John Franklin’s 1846 Northwest Passage expedition ship found
The ABC is today reporting that “the remains of one of two ships used by a former governor of Tasmania on a doomed Arctic mission in 1846 have been found….HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, led by Sir John Franklin, a former governor of Van Diemen’s Land, disappeared on a expedition to find the Northwest Passage,…