Gold: Matt Murphy in-conversation with David Hunt
Thu, 06 Mar
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us with Matt Murphy to celebrate the release of Gold! Matt will be in-conversation with David Hunt.


Time & Location
06 Mar 2025, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
Guests
About The Event
Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward Hammond Hargraves'. Hargraves has for decades (and decades) received the fame, fortune and adulation from all corners of the country, but did he earn it?
What about the two diggers he met on the Californian goldfields who told him where to look when he returned to Australia? What about the guys who led him to where they'd heard gold had been found before? What about the pioneers whose discoveries had been documented years earlier?
This is the story of an oversized layabout who received years of accolades and free lunches, despite lumbering from one embarrassment to the next, and of those who spent decades trying to expose him and seek their share of the glory.
Our event space is wheelchair accessible via a stair lift. For any other accessibility questions, please email events@betterread.com.au.
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Tickets
Event Ticket
A$5.00Event + Book
Includes a ticket and copy of Gold
A$42.00
Total
A$0.00