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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 5 July 2016 of The Age est. 1854 The Age
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Top Biographies Battle for $25,000 National Prize, Susan Wyndham , single work column
Biography is a growing genre in Australian writing and, according to historian Peter Cochrane, that is a sign of a healthy society.
 (p. 10)
Academic Digs into Colonial Artist's 'dark Secret', Carolyn Webb , single work column

'An academic expects to set the cat among the pigeons by alleging that one of our most celebrated colonial artists, S.T. Gill, was a convict.

Babette Smith says art historians have been openly hostile to her theory that Gill was a 13-year-old forger transported to Sydney in 1833, rather than a free settler to Adelaide.'

 (p. 11)
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