ABSTRACT
Edward Wilson, the proprietor of the pro-democratic Melbourne Argus, knew exactly what was going on in the mistreatment of the Aborigine and in the process of selfdeception on the part of the whites. But then he turned his attention away from the people of Australia and towards the birds. He founded the Victoria branch of the Acclimatisation Society, one of its more active extra-European branches. He introduced the sparrow to Australia, and he introduced many other birds besides. Then he moved to the right politically, sold the paper, and moved to England, where the sparrows needed no intervention.2
