Professor Lynette Russell is an Aboriginal archaeologist and historian and the current President of the Australian Historian Association. She is also the author of a number of books – the latest of which delves into the first people executed in the area of Melbourne. They were two Tasmanian Aborignial men – Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener.

Her new book – co-authored with legal scholar Kate Auty is called Hunt Them, Hang Them: “The Tasmanians” in Port Phillip 1841-42.

You can find out more about the book here.