A World Apart: The Outlaw Michael Howe

The bushranger is a central figure in our national mythology, and the character is strongly tied to early Australia's landscape, which was both liberating and limiting to the convict settlers. In Brendan Cowell's dramatisation of the infamous Michael Howe's life, we see this relationship between person and place play out in a riveting narrative that is not without its shortcomings, writes Andrew Nette.

Additional keywords: Van Diemen's Land, Damon Herriman, Mirrah Foulkes, alienation, colonialism, Aboriginal, Indigenous, ABC.