Anne Beggs-Sunter has a long association with the Ballarat district as a historian working at Federation University and its predecessors. She has examined the history of the Victorian gold rushes, and the occupation of farming lands around Ballarat as a result of the Selection Acts of the 1860s. In particular, she has analysed farming on the volcanic soils around Buninyong.
Author email a.beggs-sunter@federation.edu.au
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