Subsequent Impact On Australia
Donald McLean used the crime as the basis for his 1962 novel The World Turned Upside Down. McLean kept Hicks and Sweetman as the protagonists in the novel. However, he used other names for other participants in the events.
The incident has been compared to the Sydney gang rapes of 2000.
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