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Old Bush Schools: Life And Education In The Small Schools Of Western Australia 1893 To 1961, John A. Mckenzie
Old Bush Schools: Life And Education In The Small Schools Of Western Australia 1893 To 1961, John A. Mckenzie
Research outputs pre 2011
In researching and recording historical and anecdotal comment on the Old Bush Schools of Western Australia, John McKenzie has secured oral elements of our history which could well have been lost forever, and woven them into the recorded facts of past decades. He has produced an entertaining and particularly illuminating picture of the life of the small-school teacher in outback Western Australia during most decades of the last one hundred years...
Dark Deeds In A Sunny Land: Or Blacks And Whites In North-West Australia, J. B. Gribble
Dark Deeds In A Sunny Land: Or Blacks And Whites In North-West Australia, J. B. Gribble
Research outputs pre 2011
The frontier of European settlement in the colony of Western Australia a hundred years ago stretched way beyond the south-western corner to the far north, and pastoralists were pushing steadily inland wherever the countryside offered promise of a living to be gained. Only the presence of Aborigines stood between them and the land they sought. On a frontier as far from the colonial capital as this where governmental representatives were few or absent, the newcomers were largely free to deal with the Aboriginal presence in their own way. Whether relations between the original inhabitants and the invaders were mostly peaceful …