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'For someone who never visited the place, Charles Dickens wrote, obsessed, lobbied and published an awful lot about Australia. Dickens encouraged his two of his sons,Alfred and Edward, to go to Australia and one of them settled in Victoria and married a Melburnian.' John Huxley.