Rum, Rebels & Ratbags

Rum, Rebels & Ratbags is history not for the faint-hearted. Historian and author of 'Girt' David Hunt and ABC Radio Sydney's Dom Knight uncover the characters and events left out of your high school history class.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rumrebelsratbags/

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The Man Who Bought Australia


John Macarthur, a.k.a. Bodice Jack, had two favourite things: alcohol and money, both of which came in brown paper bags. Macarthur and the New South Wales Rum Corps ran dodgy land deals, intimidated government officials, stole from the public purse and introduced “corruption on a scale probably unexceeded until the days of Eddie Obeid”.


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 July 7, 2015  43m