Carnal Transgression explores a history of slavery in Australia few are taught about at school. The heroine of the book, Constance Dunbar, was an indentured slave, brought to Australia under the guise of being found honourable work. Sadly, this was not often the case. Thousands of Irish girls were taken from workhouses in the 1800s …
Beachmount, as mentioned in Scandalous Behaviour, was surveyed in 1842 and is situated 6km south of Inkerman. No one can say for definite exactly when people started to construct down there, but houses and huts have been gradually appearing since at least that date. The fishing, the flora, the fauna, the beach, the Aboriginal middens …
