A ‘currency lad’ born of convict parents, Deniehy became a brilliant orator and writer, a member of parliament and founder and editor of the literary and political journal, the Southern Cross. Born in Sydney in 1828, Deniehy was an orator and politician when he demolished William Charles Wentworth’s proposals to create a ‘bunyip aristocracy’ in colonial New South Wales and edited Southern Cross. pp. 174 illusts #0820 (Damaged dustjacket.)