View full article William Charles Wentworth: Father of Australia’s Freedoms
Issue: Summer 2009
William Charles Wentworth, Picture courtesy of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
By Andrew Tink William Charles Wentworth is probably best remembered as one of the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains, but that is not why the historian Manning Clark called him “Australia’s greatest native son”. Rather, it has to do with Wentworth’s role in winning some of the rights that Australians today take for granted – trial by jury, a free press and Australia’s first elected Parliament.
