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'John Macarthur has been a polarising figure in Australian history since HV Evatt’s rehabilitation of his adversary, William Bligh first appeared in 1937. Evatt cast Macarthur as a defender of landed wealth; brilliant but without ‘scruple or ‘pity’ (1944, Rum Rebellion, 197). MH Ellis countered this revisionism in his sympathetic 1955 biography of Macarthur. John’s longstanding place as nation-builder was reinforced with Gordon Andrews’ 1966 design of the new colourful two-dollar note featuring a handsome Macarthur and an equally impressive merino ram; a brilliantly distilled history lesson for Australians for 20 years. Decades later he was a ‘colonial bully’.' (Introduction)   

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 20 no. 3 2023 26785688 2023 periodical issue

    'Like all good things, this issue begins and ends in Victoria. Specifically, it opens with a research article by Robert Tyler on the Welsh in Ballarat in the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the Eisteddfod, Tyler explores the contours of the small but important community of Welsh people in gold-rush Victoria. He discusses the gains and losses of the predominately working-class Eisteddfod becoming a popular festival for all comers in less than 30 years. He conjures eloquently a time when ‘Gymraeg a siaradir, a ysgrifenir, a bregethir, ac a genir yno, a rhoddir cerddoriaeth Gymreig [Welsh is spoken, written, preached and sung, and Welsh music is written]’.' (Kate Fullagar, Jessica Lake, Benjamin Mountford & Ellen Warne : Editorial introduction)

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