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Meanwhile, in Western Australia they were still throwing out convict records. In the 1950s a workman at Fremantle Gaol who was helping to clean up after it ceased operation as a prison was confronted by hundreds of photographs of convicts. He asked someone in authority what he should do with them. ‘Destroy them. 20 Tasmania established a State Archives Authority in 1951 and New South Wales in 1961, each initially within the relevant State Library. 21 For some years, the release of the information they contained was left to the discretion of the Archives Authority.
Obviously feeling greatly betrayed, Brodribb persisted in the claim that he was induced to give a statement. indd Sec1:26 26/2/08 12:20:40 PM something to hide he told the court. ’ In this, as in all aspects of the poachers’ tale, one detects the fell hand of Colonel Berkeley. The law had not yet devised a system of Crown prosecutors acting for the State and by that means preventing vindictive prosecutions. In 1816, prosecution was still very much a personal affair. Even allowing for the requirements of the common law, Colonel Berkeley had the power at every turn to pursue or abandon a particular course of action.
35 Perhaps at his sister Prudence’s request, John Keen stayed away. indd Sec1:25 26/2/08 12:20:40 PM AU ST R A L I A’S B I RT H STA I N tragedy that was being enacted in the courtroom. Hassell and Keen were also potentially witnesses. If they had been prepared to lie, they could have cast doubt on Greenaway’s testimony. But both were professional men. It is obvious from his statement that Hassell could not bring himself to betray his personal honour or his professional oath by lying to the court.