Society, culture, community, lifestyle

Carol Baxter talks about the political-sex-scandal and major bank robbery at the heart of her first two books, An Irresistible Temptation and Breaking the Bank (Allen & Unwin), events that both reflected and impacted upon the nature of colonial New South Wales.

- 45/60 minutes – no equipment necessary but Powerpoint slides are available

This talk looks at the availability of asylum records in Australia and outlines the type of information that can be found and how useful these records are in finding ancestors who simply disappeared.