Australian Museum: Descendant steps onto site of Gerard Krefft's shock sacking

By Andrew Taylor
July 3 2015 - 12:15am
Angus Brodie wants to follow in the footsteps of his great-great-great grandfather, Gerard Krefft, an Australian Museum head who was controversially sacked in 1874. Photo: Michele Mossop
Angus Brodie wants to follow in the footsteps of his great-great-great grandfather, Gerard Krefft, an Australian Museum head who was controversially sacked in 1874. Photo: Michele Mossop

Angus Brodie will have big shoes to fill when he steps inside the Australian Museum in September to do work experience 141 years after his ancestor was controversially sacked and manhandled out of the institution by two prizefighters.

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