Last Outlaws, The (ATOM Study Guide)

The Last Outlaws is a three-part podcast series that unravels the misunderstood history of two Wiradjuri and Wonnarua brothers, Jimmy and Joe Governor – Australia’s last proclaimed outlaws.

Australia’s budding Federation is the background setting to this remarkable story, tying the brothers to the inauguration of a ‘new’ nation and Australia’s dark history of frontier violence, racial injustice and the global trade and defilement of Aboriginal ancestral remains.

This Impact Studios production is a collaboration with the Governor family descendants, UTS Faculty of Law and Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research.

More information about the podcast can be found here.

Curriculum Links:

The Last Outlaws is relevant to secondary students in Years 9–12 in the learning areas of:

• History, Civics and Citizenship (Year 9–10)
• Modern History, Law, Aboriginal Studies (Year 11–12)

Key themes and topics explored include:

• Frontier violence
• Outlawry
• Racial injustice
• Treatment of Aboriginal ancestral remains
• Australian social/legal issues around the time of Federation
• Archival records