Sally Young in Conversation
In this episode, a conversation with historian and award-winning author Sally Young, who has a new book that delves into late-nineteenth century Melbourne and Australia’s most infamous political crime, The Curious Case of the Stolen Mace. In 1891, the sacred symbol of the Victorian Parliament, its ceremonial mace, was stolen. A long, heavy club topped with a crown, it was popularly thought to be made of solid gold. The colony’s best detectives, a dour Scot named Tom Nixon and the famous Ned Kelly hunter Mick Ward, were assigned to the case, but the mace was never recovered. No one was ever…
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