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New exhibit questions William Bligh’s character

The Australian National Maritime Museum has opened a groundbreaking new exhibition offering a radical new take on one of Australian history’s most divisive characters, William Bligh. ‘Bligh – Hero or Villain?’ tells two very different sides of the same story – Bligh as

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