Friday essay: the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt
- Written by Ken Gelder, Professor of English, University of Melbourne
S.T. Gill, Kangaroo Hunting, The Death, from his Australian Sketchbook (1865). Colonial hunting clubs were established across Australia in the 1830s and 1840s.National Library of Australia
Since the beginnings of settler occupation in Australia, the kangaroo has been claimed at once as a national symbol and as a type of vermin to be destroyed en...
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