How a Bendigo politician helped bring down a government | History

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated July 10 2021 - 9:42am, first published 4:00am
A Weekly Times caricature of James Casey dated 1873. Image: STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA.
A Weekly Times caricature of James Casey dated 1873. Image: STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA.

A BENDIGO politician helped bring a government to its knees 150 years ago this winter during a leadership cull now largely ignored by historians.

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Tom O'Callaghan

Tom O'Callaghan

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