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s that richard rich has given perjured evidence against him in return for the job of attorney general for wales it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world but for wales richard for 1600 and a couple of bottles of grange sam one can only hope that andrew leigh is finally getting an appropriate salary which he missed out on when for arcane factional reasons the size of the shadow ministry blew out to 31 political gifts are curious things and you can waste a pleasant hour at the moment googling the name of any australian politician and the word grange in a depressing number of cases up pops a gift bottle the most famous recent examples are dastyari and before him the nsw premier barry o farrell who says he forgot all about the gift but nonetheless resigned when his thank you note popped up other recipients though include peter costello who received a 6 pack in 2008 kevin rudd in 2006 and just maybe tony abbott in 2015 6 women don t seem to get bottles of plonk in the same way julie bishop and tania plibersek seem to be cleanskins and the top item under julia gillard grange shows her visiting the milford grange retirement community before the 2011 election which is either admirable or sad depending on your point of view penfolds grange for anyone living on another planet is widely touted as australia s best wine it is expensive but it can always be described on the politician s register of gifts as a bottle of wine just as a rolex can be just a watch naturally it is very expensive especially the older bottles so penfolds has designed a dinky little website to let buyers type in the date they want here o farrell s bottle of grange dates from 1959 his birth year but sadly the system crashes if i enter my birthdate which dates back earlier than the first grange production sigh unlike cash a political gift is not intended to buy a politician outright but to sweeten him up to remind him as he sips his wine or glances at his watch of good old so and so often the gift is an investment in the future a strategic gift to a rising star in the opposition kevin rudd tony abbott sam dastyari is like laying down a bottle of good wine to drink at some time in the future there are fashions in political gifts as in other things sometimes cash is king lawyers still wear robes with a feature known as the money bag a thin strip of material trailing down the front of the gown and the remainder of a pocket on the back once upon a time say in thomas more s time the lawyer would turn his back and pull on the strap to jingle the bag reminding the client that payment was due english wigmakers and professional spoilsports ede and ravenscroft say the money bag is just the remnant of a monastic hood usually though the idea is to gently remind the recipient of a mutually advantageous friendship in the early 19 th century the macarthur family perfected the art of the political gift in 1804 john macarthur s fortunes turned when the colonial secretary lord camden authorized a land grant which he named camden park keeping sweet with lord camden and his secretary george watson taylor was important so when his son edward sailed to england in 1808 he took with him a menagerie of australian wildlife to distribute strategically to potential allies emus from john gould the birds of australia lady castlereagh wife of the colonial secretary got two emus it s unlikely the poor birds survived for very long at mount stewart the castlereagh estate in northern ireland a black swan and a goose also survived the voyage to be presented to lady camden since camden was no longer in office she didn t rate a matched pair but they missed out on a pair of bronze wing pigeons because watson taylor thought that too many presents at one time would overdo the business and possibly coveted the birds himself for edward gave him a very handsome present in the bird way i have made several presents to different people edward added and have not parted with all yet more than a decade later the macarthurs were still greasing the wheels george watson taylor finally got a pair of black swans in 1821 and two years later john macarthur jr sent the junior minister at the colonial office robert wilmot horton a number of kangaroo skins to make into boots it resembles dog skin but is much more durable boots and swans wine and watches fashions change but the objective remains the same a valuable and exotic gift that will remind the politician of his friends but if necessary can remain virtually anonymous when robert wilmot horton climbed the stairs of the colonial office in his kangaroo skin boots he could revel in their uniqueness but nobody else would know it was just a friendly gift after all without a hint of corruption the gift of shares in the australian agricultural company on which he turned a quick profit of 12 000 were perhaps another matter references edward macarthur s gifts are discussed in s macarthur onslow records of the macarthurs of camden 1914 john macarthur jr s gifts are recorded in the macarthur papers mitchell library and the willmot horton papers derbyshire record office share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x like loading 9 comments posted in australian history biography tagged bribery edward macarthur george watson taylor john macarthur john macarthur jr kevin rudd lord camden penfolds grange peter costello robert wilmot horton sam dastyari tony abbott an 1840 wedding at parramatta posted on 20 08 2016 8 comments on 9 september 1840 patrick leslie married kate mcarthur in the anglican church in parramatta kate was 22 patrick would be 25 in a few weeks and they had been engaged for over 3 years their marriage had been delayed again and again because patrick and his uncle my walter davidson had quarreled davidson sacked patrick as manager of his property leaving his nephew without a suitable home to which he could bring his bride the details of the quarrel are too complicated to go into here you ll have to read the book but davidson sold the property collaroy station in the upper hunter to a cousin edward hamilton who arrived in new south wales in early 1840 meanwhile patrick set out to find a new squatting run for his younger brothers on the darling downs leaving walter leslie and some servants on their new station on the condamine patrick rushed back to sydney to register their squatting run which he did in august then he finally married kate i ve spent most of the last week struggling to read the 13 page account of her wedding written by her sister libby to send to patrick s mother in scotland i suspect i may be the first person who has read the letter since it did the rounds of the leslie family during 1841 libby s handwriting is dreadful and most pages are crossed a method of squeezing as much as possible onto the page to save on the cost of postage are you tired of this scrawl libby asks at one point and i most definitely was but patrick s wedding is a key set piece in my book the final scene in in the second last chapter the point at which the two families i have been following the macarthur family in new south wales and walter davidson s extended family in britain were united in marriage kate s parents were hannibal mcarthur nephew of john macarthur and anna maria king daughter of governor king so she belonged to the colonial elite but the wedding was a surprisingly low key event probably because they had very little time to plan ahead for the big day the wedding was held in the morning followed by a big celebration at the macarthur s estate vineyard a few miles out of parramatta the vineyard parramatta by conrad martens 1840 from wikipedia the bride and groom soon left but the party continued with many of the guests staying overnight patrick and kate spent their first few nights at hannibal s holiday home at clovelly before going to dunheved uncle king s estate which patrick had rented while king was the resident commissioner of the australian agricultural company at port stephens view of dunheved new south wales by conrad martens 1837 from mitchell library state library of new south wales i m intrigued by the similarities and differences between this wedding in 1840 and a wedding celebration these days in some ways they are quick alike the toasts and speeches haven t changed much nor has the sense that the groom with one best man was outcompeted by the bride with her host of bridesmaids the fashionable clothes are much the same even to the mother of the bride s outfit in yurk violet kate didn t throw a bouquet but the business with papa s wedding ring seems to follow the same rules of pre planned prediction everyone knew that mary was going to marry patrick s friend hugh gordon as soon as he returned from china i think in the days of my kitchen rules we are more preoccupied with food than libby seems to have been although i suspect their cold collation was pretty similar to our rubber chicken and prepared without refrigeration too less similar is the sheer size of kate s family she had 5 sisters and 5 brothers most of whom were present there s something about family celebrations that brings out the best and worst in the human condition that s why suicide rates go up around christmas people fall in love at their friends weddings and fights break out after funerals libby s letter is full of the joy of the big event but below the surface were a seething mass of tensions only some of which were evident at the time the most obvious tension was between the two branches of the macarthur family the camden macarthurs and the vineyard mcarthurs took opposing positions in the quarrel between patrick leslie and walter davidson and the families were becoming estranged they even used different spellings of their name but hannibal was john macarthur s nephew so john s children should have been at their cousin s wedding john macarthur s widow elizabeth was a friend of grandmama anna josepha king but she was also an old lady and could be excused attendance and her eldest daughter was always treated as an invalid james s absence was another matter and his wife emily could surely have got there too though her baby was only born the previous may there were other tensions too the leslie brothers the mcarthur brothers and robert mckenzie were all beneficiaries of the squatting boom but the economic situation was about to go very bad indeed their friend stuart donaldson was a businessman in sydney supplying their stations and selling their wool on consignment this made him their creditor and it would be many years before he ever got his money back finally there were the absent brothers walter leslie missed the wedding because he was holding the fort on the darling downs pretty much literally the first building they put up there was made of stone the better to resist attack by aborigines with windows just large enough to fire a gun it is a lovely place there have been no blacks seen on our run for 18 months wrote patrick ominously less than 2 years later meanwhile the oldest brother william leslie was in macao where he was a partner in dent co one of the biggest opium traders in the business news from china was scarce in september 1840 because of the first opium war libby clearly thought this war with china would be good for trade for those who may be interested i ve attached the whole of libby s letter below there are still a few words that defeat me and i d be grateful for any clues guesses as to what they may be libby s punctuation is erratic i ve adjusted accordingly and added paragraphs to make it easier to read continue reading share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x like loading 8 comments posted in australian history biography walter stevenson davidson women s history tagged darling downs edward hamilton edye manning emmeline macarthur hannibal hawkins macarthur history of costume history of marriage james macarthur patrick leslie robert ramsay mackenzie squatting stuart alexander donaldson walter stevenson davidson william macarthur heather radi 1929 2016 posted on 29 07 2016 12 comments the australian historian heather radi died recently in sydney she taught australian history at the university of new south wales and university of sydney for many years and she was on the board of the australian dictionary of biography i only met heather a few times but i knew of her from when i first began work in the history department at the university of queensland in 1970 for heather had preceded me there during the 1950s as a student and as a research assistant and long after she left on a scholarship to the london school of economics people still talked about her fondly and sometimes rather nervously heather radi portrait in dawson and radi against the odds heather was born on a settler block at mt tamborine in 1929 now it is just an hour s drive from brisbane but then the area was quite remote she was the first of her family to get to university unlike most historians she was good at mathematics and might have done maths rather than history at university but for the flip of a coin after graduating she went teaching briefly and hated it so did i then she worked as a research assistant for professor gordon greenwood so did i those were the days of the god professor whose power within his with only one exception always his department was absolute professors like greenwood kept a stable i use the term advisedly of female research assistants who prepared the raw materials for his work greenwood was not the only one i ve always wanted to know more about the near invisible research assistants who helped shape manning clark s multi volume history in 1984 heather wrote the professor exploited me of course as it was my work which enabled him to publish as much as he did with a few words of acknowledgement in the final paragraph of the preface when i joined the history department it was common knowledge that heather had written most of the chapter on the 1920s that appeared under greenwood s name in australia a social and political history 1955 this was particularly unfair not just academically but financially as well because australia was a text book that sold widely went into a second edition and no doubt earned greenwood a good deal of money the upside of the arrangement was that heather could write a thesis at the same time she says to compensate for my low salary i was permitted one day a week to work for a postgraduate degree i was allowed to enrol for a topic so close to that which i was employed to research that the distinction of when i worked for the professor and when i worked for me was merely a notion in my mind i had a similar experience though by the time i worked for gordon greenwood his powers were waning one of his earliest and 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