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Malcolm’s example inspires military mutiny

27 October 2016

7:08 AM

27 October 2016

7:08 AM

Malcolm Turnbull And Bill Shorten Address 100th Annual RSL National ConferenceAustralian military-political intrigue claimed its first victim on January 26, 1808 when the NSW Rum Corps arrested Governor William Bligh.

The colony’s fourth governor, naval Captain Bligh was no stranger to mutiny.

His transgression in this instance was to attempt to rein in the Rum Corps’ corrupt excesses, the officers having captured the fledgeling colony’s economy by establishing rum as a currency.

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