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Did they see it coming? How fortune-telling took hold in Australia - with women as clients and criminals

  • Written by Alana Piper, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Did they see it coming? How fortune-telling took hold in Australia - with women as clients and criminalsThough illegal, fortune telling was only sporadically prosecuted. Here, two women set up tents at the 1913 Adelaide Children's Hospital fete.State Library of SA

In the first decade of the 20th century, Australians were focused on the future. It was the dawn of a new century, and of a newly formed nation.

Perhaps this forward outlook was part of why...

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