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Katrina Place Dernelley, Historian and Heritage Consultant, La Trobe University

What would history look like if women were the main characters? Gold Diggers gives us a very funny, refreshingly accurate answer

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In the small Victorian goldfields township of Kingower in 1860, two women, the “notorious” Hobart Town Annie and Tipperary Poll, thrashed a man who had accused the pair of theft.

He was rescued by a crowd, at whom Annie and Poll began pitching bottles.

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