In the Roaring Fifties
A young immigrant arrives in the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s: diggings, bushrangers and the Eureka years.
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Edward Dyson (author) died in 1931. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1981. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.
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First published in 1906. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.
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