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'Novel set on a cattle station in the Kimberleys, WA, about Bayard, a young district policeman and his Aboriginal prisoner, driven there for safety from a tribal revenge party.'
Source: Trove.
Adaptations
form yDust in the SunJoy Cavill,
Lee Robinson,
W. P. Lipscomb,
( dir. Lee Robinson)1958Australia:Southern Films International,1958Z16881291958single work film/TV crime mystery When a policeman taking an Aboriginal prisoner to trial is attacked and injured by other Aboriginal people, it sets off a chain of tragic events.
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First known date:1955 Serialised by:The Argus1848-1957newspaper (491 issues)