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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 The Bates Family
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The Bates family's lives were moulded to the harsh conditions of the Australian outback. Their lives were wholly concerned with droving sheep or cattle, often for hundreds of miles from property to property or to railway trucking yards. They were without roots, but they lived and thought for each other, and for the animals who formed so important a part of their lives. But when the drought struck, there was no droving to be done and the Bates family had just one aim, to try to save their own animals, for on them their livelihood depended.

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    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Collins ,
      1969 .
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      Extent: 160p.
      ISBN: 0001840576
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Harcourt Brace & World ,
      1969 .
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      Extent: 175p.
      Edition info: 1st American

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y separately published work icon The Evolution of the Queensland Kid : Changing Literary Representations of Queensland Children in Children's and Adolescent Fiction Sharyn Pearce , St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1094605 1996 single work criticism
'Learning to Accept Life as it Comes' H. M. Saxby , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 July 1970; (p. 23)

— Review of The Bates Family Reginald L. Ottley , 1969 single work children's fiction
Australiana Eve Pownall , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , December no. 34 1969; (p. 35-38)

— Review of Platypus Joe Louise McConnell , 1969 selected work children's fiction ; The Lucky Stone Stella Sammon , 1969 single work children's fiction ; Six Days Between a Second Marjory O'Dea , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Bates Family Reginald L. Ottley , 1969 single work children's fiction ; Euloowirree Walkabout John Kiddell , 1968 single work novel ; Blue Fin Colin Thiele , 1969 single work children's fiction
'Learning to Accept Life as it Comes' H. M. Saxby , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 July 1970; (p. 23)

— Review of The Bates Family Reginald L. Ottley , 1969 single work children's fiction
Australiana Eve Pownall , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , December no. 34 1969; (p. 35-38)

— Review of Platypus Joe Louise McConnell , 1969 selected work children's fiction ; The Lucky Stone Stella Sammon , 1969 single work children's fiction ; Six Days Between a Second Marjory O'Dea , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Bates Family Reginald L. Ottley , 1969 single work children's fiction ; Euloowirree Walkabout John Kiddell , 1968 single work novel ; Blue Fin Colin Thiele , 1969 single work children's fiction
y separately published work icon The Evolution of the Queensland Kid : Changing Literary Representations of Queensland Children in Children's and Adolescent Fiction Sharyn Pearce , St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1094605 1996 single work criticism
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