Horatio Wills
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Horatio Spencer Howe Wills was an Australian pastoralist, politician and newspaper owner.
Horatio Wills circa 1850s
Currency lads and lasses
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Currency lads and lasses were the first generations of native-born white Australians. They were the children of the British settlers and convicts who arrived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries,
Horatio Wills
…for Australia's first newspaper, The Sydney Gazette, before founding his own journal, The Currency Lad, in 1832. In it, he promoted the interests of "currency lads and lasses" (native-born white Australians) and made the earliest arguments for a form of Australian republicanism, prefiguring the nationalist attitudes of the…
Born in Sydney of a convict father, Horatio Wills exalted native-born Australians ("currency lads and lasses") in his newspaper The Currency Lad.