Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 [Review Essay] Tom and Jack : A Frontier Story
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'Geraldine Byrne’s carefully researched social history tells the story of the overland cattle drives across northern Australia to the Kimberley in the 1880s, and of the establishment and development of Rosewood pastoral station, through the lens of station owners Tom Kilfoyle and his son Jack. The Irish Australian Tom Kilfoyle was a great cattleman of exceptional endurance and skill, and his son Jack an independently minded northern Australian character born and bred in the Kimberley pastoral industry. The magnitude of Tom Kilfoyle’s task, droving a herd of cattle for two years over 4000 kilometres, and the nature of pastoral life itself, are encapsulated in their being ‘held up for six months waiting for rain’ (p. 54).'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 1 2005 Z1217251 2005 periodical issue

    'This collection of papers was originally inspired by a workshop on native title and archaeology hosted as part of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Conference held in Adelaide in 2000. It received further impetus due to repeated calls for practice guidelines as well as questions about the relevance of archaeological evidence in native title from practitioners, lawyers, native title representative bodies and the requirements of expert witnesses involved in Federal Court trials.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2005
    pg. 110-111
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