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- Title
The politics of convict control in colonial New South Wales -- 'the notorious OPQ' and the clandestine press.
- Authors
WALSH, BRIAN
- Abstract
The article examines the role that anonymous writers for Australia's "Sydney Herald" newspaper played in the criticism of New South Wales (NSW) Governor Richard Bourke's approach to the discipline of convicts in the colony's prisons in the 1830s. It focuses on James Webber, also known as the notorious OPQ, a settler in the Hunter Valley region of NSW and his efforts to attack Bourke in the press for his enactment of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, which reduced the power of the colony's magistrates to punish convicts working on the estates in NSW. Other topics include several pamphlets criticizing Bourke that were published by an anonymous author known as Humanitas and concerns expressed by magistrates such as John Pike, John Bingle, and James Mudie regarding increased convict violence.
- Subjects
HUNTER River Valley (N.S.W.); NEW South Wales; WEBBER, James; PRISONERS; BOURKE, Richard; JUDGES; COLONIAL administration; PIKE, John; BINGLE, John; MUDIE, James; HISTORY of New South Wales; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2010, Vol 96, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0035-8762
- Publication type
Article