One of my favourite books is The Bicycle and the Bush by Jim Fitzpatrick. It has a lot of detail about early bicycles in rural Australia, they don't look a lot different from pre-1995 mountain bikes: diamond frame, fat tyres.
Another very good book is The Life and Adventures of Edward Snell: the illustrated diary of an artist, engineer, and adventurer in the Australian Colonies (1849-1859), , really good reading. He never made it to Tarnagulla, but did work on the goldfields around Bendigo.
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