Product Overview
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
