White Dog, the Boozing Hound extract   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 White Dog, the Boozing Hound
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Notes

  • From p115-116 of Eaters of the Lotus.
  • An obituary written for White Dog, a fox terrier that used to drink at the Victoria Hotel in Darwin.

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    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 282
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y separately published work icon Eaters of the Lotus Keith Willey , Brisbane : Jacaranda Press , 1964 Z1396273 1964 single work prose travel p.28-32; Notes on Victoria River Downs Station, half castes not paid a working mans wage; p.58-60; Examples of life for the fringe dwellers - gin burglary, attempts at assimilation; p.80-81; Life at Hooker Creek (northern Wailbri); p.81-82; The Murranji track; p.142-144; Notes on the Malak-Malak & Woolwonga massacres, tales of Nemarluk & tracker Bul-Bul; p.151-156; Effect of mining on Gove; duel with nulla nullas (Andilyagwas), founding of settlement on Groote Eylandt by Gray; p.160-173; Policies of assimilation and problems, natives ideas.(Libraries Australia record)
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