BOOK LAUNCH  The Goldfields Re-Imagined; militant miners, miscreants and poor Mary Anne By Marjorie Theobald  This is a lively and engaging series of chapters about women, convicts, shysters, aristocrats and politicians in the Castlemaine goldrush. There is a piece about Castlemaine's remarkable but little known Gold Commissioner (then Warden) Captain John Edward Newell Bull, and his attempts
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