May 23, 2012

Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

I wrote this article in February 2002 in response to a campaign by Senator Julian McGauran and Tim Fischer to obtain a pardon for English officer “Breaker” Morant, who ordered the killing of prisoners in the Anglo/South African War. I was annoyed that McGauran took up this issue without any community consultation. It was the [...]

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