Flash Poll extract   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Flash Poll
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Author recalls his friend 'Flash Poll', an Aboriginal woman in Port Essington.

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  • From p.46 of In Northern Seas.

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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. 121-122
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y separately published work icon In Northern Seas : Being Mr. Alfred Searcy's Experiences on the North Coast of Australia, as Recounted to E. Whitington Alfred Searcy , E. Whitington , Adelaide : W. K. Thomas , 1905 Z1400884 1905 single work autobiography A collection of newspaper articles about Searcy's period in the Northern Territory reprinted from The Register (South Australia). He reworked and extended the material as In Australian Tropics (London, 1907).
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