Dictating Morality: the exclusion of Mrs Mabel Freer
Why was a British woman given a dictation test in Italian on her arrival in Australia in 1936? We might …
Category: Scandals and Sensations
Stories drawn from Australia’s colourful past
The ‘Pyjama Girl’ Mystery: case closed or forced shut?
The ‘Pyjama Girl’ case was one of Australia’s most sensational murder mysteries, but did the police really ‘get their man’ …
A Fatal Tryst: The Bogle/Chandler Mystery
At the height of the Cold War, a brilliant physicist and the wife of his colleague are found dead ‘in …
The ‘Flogging Parson’ and the Convict Girl
In colonial New South Wales, a convict girl defies a panel of magistrates and refuses to accuse her master of …