Bushrangers in Brighton – podcast

Most of us have heard of the bushrangers of Australia’s early days of white settlement.  They were outlaws, living in the bush and committing crimes on the local populations. Some were former convicts, driven to bushranging by poverty and the sometimes brutal inequalities of the colonial system. This is what turned them in some people’s eyes into folk heroes. But the people of Brighton were probably not feeling too star-struck on one particular Saturday. Clare Arthurs asked Jess Curtain from the Brighton Historical Society to tell the story of what happened in October, 1852, starting with the state of what’s now the Nepean Hwy.

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