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For two decades after the Second World War, Murray-Smith and Gott were among the leading activists of the left in Melbourne. While Murray-Smith turned his energies to Australian literature and education, Gott remained a journalist and political activist.
Torney examines the changing representations, in newspaper reports and in literature, of the case of the Duff children, who went missing in bush in Victoria in 1864 and were discovered alive nine days later.