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for details. "General Gordon Bennett
and the Battle of
Western Australia"
Dick Turner reveals the
little-known story of how
General Gordon Bennett
used subterfuge in Western Australia during WWII to fool the Japanese and thus prevent them attacking the nation from the west.
Dick Turner was a country
accountant who heard and
saw evidence of this amazing
bloodless "Battle of
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BUSH
POETRY
NOSTALGIA
Inland north from Port August to the Barkly Tableland,
From the eastern blue-gray mountains to the
Murchison’s red sand,
The plains and hidden valleys thoughout that vast terrain
Know the heavy heady perfume
Of Mulga after rain.
Than you huddle in scant shelter as the daylight turns to rust,
And the wind blasts jagged patterns in the
blinding choking dust,
The storm swirls muddy torrents, thunder
crashes in your brain,
Welcome then the soothing fragrance
Of mulga greeting rain.
The glorious inland sunrise paints morning over night,
The rainbow’s changing colour blends to
sunshine golden bright,
The beauty of the inland, so intense it’s almost pain,
Then the freshly scented breezes
Tell of mulga soft with rain.
The spinifex is blooming in wide fields like golden wheat
And parakeelya spreading in the shadows lush and sweet,
Myriad eyes of black and scarlet, Sturt peas
cover all the plain,
But the delicate aroma Is of mulga green with rain.
The everlasting daisies form a carpet pink and white,
A fairyland of frosting, a vision of delight,
Ghost gums dance in mystic moonlight to a whispering refrain,
Yet the spirit of the inland
Lives in mulga after rain.
See the glory of the inland as you travel far and wide,
Blooming flowers in the deserts where the willy willies ride,
But the haunting living memory to bring you back again,
Is the breath of pure nostalgia
Born of mulga scented rain.
Poem
by Dick Turner (c) Joan Small 2000
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  Adventures
of A Free Settler in Australia - A Rollicking Tale 1848 - 1896
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'The
Adventures of a Free Settler in Australia 1848 - 1896 - A Rollicking
Tale' James
Dannock
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'The Adventures of a Free Settler in Australia 1848 - 1896
This
humourous true story was written by James Dannock in 1896 about how
he came to Australia as a 'Norfolk Dumpling'on the ship Castle Eden
in 1848 and his adventures in the developing colony of Australia.
Read about the heady days of the Goldrush in Victoria, and the West.
There's encounters with aborigines, shark bite in the ocean, the bushfires
of 'Black Thursday' and more The Adventures of a Kid on an Outback Goldmine'
A humourous true story of Growing Up in Australia's Last
Goldrush Town, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory 10 years to Adult.
Peter Turner lived on 'Nobles Nob' Goldmine 14 km from Tennant Creek
from the age of 6 to 16 years. The stories told in this book are in
the style of an Australian Tom Sawyer - a larrikin kid and his free
life of fun and feuds in the bush.
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