FHACT Monthly Meeting (Register)

FHACT February Monthly Meeting is a hybrid meeting. Members and guests interested in attending should register for this event via Zoom or in person. After registering to attend via Zoom, you will receive an email with a link to the external Zoom website to complete the registration.

‘King’ O’Malley is known to history as a ‘larrikin’ and maverick politician, member of the first Australian Federal Parliament and Federal Minister, whose political career spanned two decades. Arriving from America in the late 1880s, he quickly drew attention through his public shenanigans; his theatrical storytelling, fashionable accoutrements, and ‘larger than life’ Yankee persona. However, his past remained shrouded in mystery. Yet, on the other side of the Pacific, another mystery remained unresolved. Following the notorious 1882 New Haven, Connecticut, trial and acquittal of James Malley, the main suspect in the death of Jennie Cramer, Malley disappears from official records in the northeast United States, and the saga begins. This is the story of how James became ‘King’.

Brian O’Malley is a retired Australian Federal public servant with experience in law enforcement functions and a wide range of work and travel experience. He has won the ACT Marjorie Graber-McInnes short story competition and was short-listed in the Shoalhaven national short story competition.