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The great escape from WA, on the Catalpa ship
It is 150 years since one of the greatest convict escapes in Australian history. In 1876, a whaling ship called the Catalpa picked up six Irish political prisoners from a rowboat off Fremantle, WA, and sailed back to America with them. The Catalpa had come from New York solely for that purpose.
Guest: Tony Moore, historian, and Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
Lead Chief Investigator, ARC Linkage Project 'Conviction Politics: the convict routes of Australian democracy'
Author of a 2010 book called ‘Death or liberty: rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 –…
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