Laurie Moore and Stephan Williams: The True Story of Jimmy Governor

Jimmy and Joe Governor were the last proclaimed outlaws in New South Wales. With their friend Jack Underwood they killed five people at Breelong on July 20, 1900.

In the following days the two brothers killed three adults, including a pregnant woman, and a young child before going on a rampage of armed robbery, leading police and civilians on a three-month 4830km chase - the largest manhunt in Australian history.

Joe was eventually shot dead; Jimmy was captured, tried and hanged.

The Governors were Aborigines, their killings the result of years of ill-treatment and insult. Seeking genuinely to understand, the authors draw the conclusion that Jimmy was lashing out with his only weapons against people who controlled his and his family's life beyond any ability he had to respond ... a black man in charge of his own destiny.

Allen and Unwin

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