Three decades after the colony’s first bushranger, the settlement was larger, harsher, and more organised — and so were its outlaws. Along the roads west of Sydney, a transported convict named Jack Donohoe moved from escape to armed resistance. In a colony now governed by patrols, proclamations, and printed rewards, bushranging was no longer improvisation. It was becoming a crisis the government could no longer ignore.

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