This lonely and impoverished woman passed away in the Gladesville Mental Hospital 100 years ago this month. Louisa Lawson (née Albury) was born in 1848 near Mudgee, a goldrush town on the Central ...

Working-class in origin and Chartist in opinion, he was a poet before he was a politician. By the time Louisa Lawson's letter hit his desk, he'd jettisoned his radicalism, grown an enormous white ...