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Author McKellar, Hazel, 1930-

Title Woman from nowhere : Hazel McKellar's story / Hazel McKellar ; as told to Kerry McCallum
Published Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 2000

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  305.489915 Mck/Wfn  AVAILABLE
 MELB SPC FLANNERY  305.489915 Mck/Wfn  UNAVAILABLE
Description xv, 173 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
regular print
Summary "Sent out to work at 11, married at 16, mother at 17 and on the track as a drover's wife, Hazel McKellar has a life of drama. "I crossed the raging Cato Creek with three horses, a wagonette and four children..." The drover's wife turns drover herself, in charge of 5,000 head. Hazel graduates to consultant and heads off to do battle in committees after the Cunnamulla 'riot' arouses her fighting spirit to new causes."--BOOK JACKET
Notes "Magbala books receives financial assistance from the Commonwealth Government through the ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission." -- T.p. verso
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Subject McKellar, Hazel, 1930-
Aboriginal Australians -- Political activity -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Queensland -- Cunamulla -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Queensland, Southwestern -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Political activity -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social conditions -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Politics and government -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Politics and government.
Drovers -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland -- Cunamulla -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland -- Cunnamulla -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Queensland, Southwestern -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Queensland, Southwestern
SUBJECT Cunnamulla (Qld.) -- Race relations
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author MacCallum, Kerry.
LC no. 2001339876
ISBN 1875641653
Other Titles Woman from nowhere
Woman from nowhere : Hazel McKellar's story