Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's Most Colourful Criminal Characters

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Jim Haynes Jim Haynes

Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags

Australia's Most Colourful Criminal Characters

Jim Haynes, Jim Haynes

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ABC Audio
01 December 2022

Australasian & Pacific history; Audiobooks - Non-fiction

The bold, the bad

and the slightly mad …

Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles 15 larger-than-life Aussie rogues. These stories uncover the truth and expose the myths about characters ranging from the most despicable examples of humanity, to those whose courage has to be admired and whose so-called 'crimes' were unjustly punished.

This fascinating collection features felons who have sprung from Australia's underbelly since 1788, such as the infamous Kate Leigh of the razor gangs; the convict Mary Bryant, who in 1791 escaped from the Sydney penal settlement and somehow made it back to England; James Hardy Vaux, who was sent to Australia no less than three times and Henry James O'Farrell, the madman who attempted to murder Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868.

Told with Haynes's inimitable combination of history and humour, Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags is packed with murders, mystery and miscreants – true stories of true criminals from Australia's past.

By: Jim Haynes
Read by: Jim Haynes
Imprint: ABC Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9781038628787
ISBN 10: 1038628784
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

In 1990 Jim Haynes started Bush Poetry Breakfasts at Tamworth during the annual festival. The success of the radio show led to the release of Jim's first book, I'll Have Chips! which was a huge seller, and won him the inaugural Bush Laureate 'Book of the Year' award in Tamworth in 1996. He's since released 12 books of Australian short stories and verse, mostly for ABC Books, including An Australian Heritage of Verse and An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse, which won him his second and third Bush Laureate 'Book of the Year' awards. In 1990 Jim Haynes started Bush Poetry Breakfasts at Tamworth during the annual festival. The success of the radio show led to the release of Jim's first book, I'll Have Chips! which was a huge seller, and won him the inaugural Bush Laureate 'Book of the Year' award in Tamworth in 1996. He's since released 12 books of Australian short stories and verse, mostly for ABC Books, including An Australian Heritage of Verse and An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse, which won him his second and third Bush Laureate 'Book of the Year' awards.