The Strategy of King Bungeye single work   short story   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 The Strategy of King Bungeye
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Hellspond tells us that the boss of Bungle Down Station began to worry about the possibility of a European dictator attacking Australia. He decided they needed to practise defence of the homestead and trained up his men like soldiers. The final strategy was to have the local Aboriginal leader (Old Bungeye) rally his tribe to a pretend attack.

Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains an Asian character.

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    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 26 October 1938 Z1762526 1938 newspaper issue 1938 pg. 5
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