Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Broome Creole : Aboriginal and Asian Partnerships along the Kimberly Coast
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'Romantic Broome - the pearling centre of the North West ... the locale of exciting novels! White-sailed luggers skimming across azure seas in the early dawn. Colowful Asiatics jostling in Sheba Lane - the famous street 0' Pearls. And languorous tropical nights beneath the glittering southern Cross.' (Extract) 

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 6 no. 2 November 1999 Z1095049 1999 periodical issue

    'This issue of Queensland Review makes no argument about Queensland in particular. If an implicit argument about Queensland might be imposed on the papers presented here, it is that historically, the polyethnic qualities of northern townships like Broome, Darwin and Thursday Island, present such strong similarities, and read so differently from the more profuse southern histories, that the differences of experience between geographic regions like north and south, or between pearling belt and metropolis, appear possibly more historically consistent than differences between states.

    The north Australian experience was strongly influenced by the massive influx of Asian labour. This influx continued beyond Federation until World War II, largely because the pearling industry, one of the economic mainstays of the far north, was exempted from the provision of the White Australia policy.' (Extract) 

    1999
    pg. 59-73
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