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  • We, The Aborigines
    Douglas Lockwood
    Douglas Lockwood began writingu2028 books based on his own knowledge and experiences with the Aborigines of northern and central Australia in the late 1950s. These books, which include 'I,The Aboriginal' and 'We,The Aborigines', made his name known around Australia and in many other parts of the world.u2028 'I,The Aboriginalu2028' won the Adelaide u2028Advertiser literaryu2028 ...
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  • The Lizard Eaters
    Douglas Lockwood
    In 1957, officers from the Welfare Branch of Northern Territory Administration began patrolling the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts. Here they found the Pintubi people, who had never before been in touch with white civilisation. In 1963, the Melbourne Herald’s correspondent, Douglas Lockwood, was invited to join a patrol into the Gibson Desert to a point about 960 km west of Ali...
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  • I, The Aboriginal
    Douglas Lockwood
    My name is Waipuldanya, or Wadjiri-Wadjiri. I’m a full blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe of the Roper River in the Northern Territory. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aid only of his spears and woomeras. This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a ski...
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  • Alice on the Line
    Doris Blackwell / Douglas Lockwood
    The town that is now Alice Springs was a telegraph station when Doris Bradshaw Blackwell went there as a young girl in 1899. Doris Blackwell’s father,Thomas Bradshaw, was the officer-in- charge of the telegraph station from 1899 to 1908.u2028He took his young family from Oodnadatta, the railhead, on a buggy ride of more than 300 miles. In 'Alice on the Line', Doris has recaptur...
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  • Australian Under Attack
    Douglas Lockwood
    The first ever attack on Australia by a foreign power occurred at Darwin on 19th February 1942. The town was bombed in broad daylight by members of the Japanese Carrier Task Force which had been engaged at Pearl Harbor two months earlier. Not a single operational R.A.A.F. fighter aircraft was available to meet this attack, imminent and inevitable though it was... At the time of...
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