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Author Hawke, Steve, 1959-

Title A town is born : the story of Fitzroy Crossing / Steve Hawke
Published Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 2013

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 W'PONDS  994.14 Haw/Tib  AVAILABLE
Description 211 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Summary The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote pastoral regions of the north. But in these tropical parts the winds of change did not bring the anti-war movement, the counterculture, feminism, or the other issues that preoccupied the cities. Rather, they blew down an industry, a regime, a culture that for the best part of a century had thrived on a semi-feudal system of co-dependence between the all-powerful station bosses, and large communities of unpaid Aboriginal workers and their families. In the course of a couple of years the township of Fitzroy Crossing in the remote Kimberley changed from a tiny frontier outpost, to a refugee camp with hundreds of people living in fringe camps in third world conditions. From this maelstrom a unique community emerged, with a strong ethos of cooperation and support amongst the various peoples of the Fitzroy Valley
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Country life -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fitzroy Crossing -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fitzroy Crossing
SUBJECT Fitzroy Crossing (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017039840 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Fitzroy Crossing (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017039840 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
ISBN 9781921248856 (paperback)
1921248858 (paperback)
Other Titles Story of Fitzroy Crossing