The Last Outlaws

In a History Lab season like no other, we’re pulling on the threads of one of Australia’s great misunderstood histories, moving beyond the myths to learn what the Aboriginal brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor faced in both life and death.

Australia’s budding Federation is the background setting to this remarkable story, that sees the Governor brothers tied to the inauguration of a ‘new’ nation and Australia’s dark history of frontier violence, racial injustice and the global trade and defilement of Aboriginal ancestral remains.

This Impact Studios production is a collaboration with the Governor family, UTS Faculty of Law and Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research.

The Last Outlaws team Katherine Biber - UTS Law Professor and Chief Investigator Aunty Loretta Parsley - Great-granddaughter of Jimmy Governor and the Governor Family Historian Leroy Parsons - Governor descendant, Narrator and Co-Writer Kaitlyn Sawrey - Host, Writer and Senior Producer Frank Lopez - Writer, Senior Producer, Composer and Sound Engineer Allison Chan - Producer and Researcher Professor Daryle Rigney, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research - Cultural Consultant Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker, honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University - Cultural Consultant Belinda Lopez - Editorial Advisor Benjamin Vozzo - Digital Communications Manager Emma Lancaster - Executive Producer Jake Duczynski - Digital Animation and Artwork by Studio Gilay Additional sound engineering by Martin Peralta and Ryan Pemberton Additional sound supplied by Camilla Hannan Darwin Studio support from the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association - Lee Hewitt, Brendon Barlow and Bernard Namok