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Dec 2021
28m 36s

The Lost Boys of Daylesford

ABC Radio
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On a clear cold Sunday morning in June 1867, three little boys wandered away from their home near the town of Daylesford, on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria. Over the next six weeks the boys’ story gripped the colony.  
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