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Short account of Tom Wills life and two other extraordinary men that were acquaintances of his

Short article on Tom Wills, created for the 150th anniversary of Australian Rules Football

Audio file of interview with Dr Greg De Moore on "Tom Wills, his spectacular rise and tragic fall" There are some portions of the transcript on the website, but most of the information is on the audio file if students are willing to listen.

Edited transcript of the 2011 John Button Oration delivered by Martin Flanagan about Tom Wills and his family history. There are references to Ned Kelly and the status of Legend given to certain famous Australians.

This site is provided by the National Library of Australia who are digitising most of Australia's newspapers. Type in the name of the person you are researching to see if there are any newspaper articles about them. Hopefully you will find reports from the time they were alive (a contemporary source). Be careful! - there may be too many articles. Your job will be to use the titles to decide which articles might be the most relevant to your research.

Not sure on this source but some of the content will give students plenty to debate