THE DIG TREE - TEXT CLASSICS John Gatford a mythology about our colonial

a mythology about our colonial soldiers had already been crafted

and transformative learning

Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness

bringing about 'new patterns of mobility for colonised peoples'

including recent technological innovations

THE DIG TREE - TEXT CLASSICS John Gatford a mythology about our colonialIntroduced by Geoffrey Blainey Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he wrote, 'I see little chance for any of us.' In 1860, an eccentric Irish policeman and a shy English scientist led a cavalcade of men and camels out of Melbourne to cross the continent south to north. Less than a year later seven men were dead.