New Miniseries: A Murder of Note – Part One: A Man of the Killing Times
We all know Edith Cowan – first woman elected to an Australian parliament – graces out $50 note.
But did you know she was shaped by a traumatic childhood?
In 1876, her father, the prominent colonial settler and explorer Kenneth Brown, shot her stepmother dead.
This was a crime that shocked Western Australia – and one whose elements are all too common 150 years later.
In Part One of this new miniseries, we look at the forces that shaped Kenneth, from Frontier War violence to his tilt at the Melbourne Cup.
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