How Did Ben Hall Influence Australian Society

For Ben Hall a young man, the evolving and progressive society of Australia presented an opportunity for the adventurous to have ago and to build a solid foundation for the future without the social judgments that long been a handicap for those of limited means and wherein some sections of Australian society there still retained the structured aristocracy of the old country where title and inherited wealth determined a path of diversity for those that were termed privileged, this, of course, excluded Ben Hall. It was for those in Australia with courage and determination that the land could offer them that same opportunity of position in the new aristocracy of the colony which was being forged out of the criminals of England who had been bound down by iron chains and where the land for those ex-convicts presented a new wealth for men marked long ago and sent to this penal land for crimes that were so petty that in a modern Australia or England would not ever see the courthouse let alone seven to fourteen years incarcerated with severe physical punishment.

Ben Hall had grown up in a family with ex-convicts as parents and Ben Hall was nine years old when Eliza his mother finally obtained her ticket of leave in 1846 even so his parents established for themselves a respectable farm on a few acres at Murrurundi and prospered to become a self-sufficient entity. For Ben Hall in the early days of working for Mr. Hamilton followed by his work for the Walsh 's had honed the skill 's he had developed for stock work which in turn enabled an ambition to arise for his own station and the opportunity to be his own