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AUNTY LORETTA ‘THIS STORY NEEDED TO BE TOLD’

PODCAST OF THE YEAR WINNER

The story of Jimmy Governor has been told a number of times, notably in Thomas Keneally's novel The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith and its film adaptation. But awardwinning podcast The Last Outlaws takes a more factual and rounded look at the events that unfolded at the dawn of the 1900s.

For the first time, the narrative involves the descendants of the Aboriginal man hanged for a series of murders talks to Aunty Loretta Parsley, who has long been the family's historian, about approaching the story of her great-grandfather anew.

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