Rachael Weaver
Rachael Weaver is an ARC Future Fellow in English at the University of Tasmania and a 2024 Visiting Scholar at the State Library of New South Wales. She is the author of The Criminal of the Century (2006) and, with Ken Gelder, The Colonial Journals, and the emergence of Australian literary culture (2014), Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy (2017), and The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt (2020).
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- The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt: Launch Speech by Justin Clemens
The elegant and precise title says what this book does: 'The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt'. It spans the crucial period of British colonialism in Australia from Captain Cook until the late 19th century. It draws on a remarkable range of archival materials, from poems, journals, novels, scientific accounts, sketches, engravings, to paintings, both indigenous and European, and much much more.