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Convict Lives on Cockatoo Island

Dr Katherine Roscoe, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, discusses her recent public lecture for New South Wales History Week 2020 in which she unpacks the mythology around Cockatoo Island.