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O u t b a c k

Australia's very first piano was dumped on the beach at Sydney cove in 1788; it belonged to Surgeon George Worgan who, along with a few thousand convicts and soldiers, was part of the First Fleet from England. The piano was not just a status symbol, it would become an important means by which social cohesion was maintained by an insecure and fearful immigrant population in the face of a perceived hostile wilderness.