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The Bates family's lives were moulded to the harsh conditions of the Australian outback. Their lives were wholly concerned with droving sheep or cattle, often for hundreds of miles from property to property or to railway trucking yards. They were without roots, but they lived and thought for each other, and for the animals who formed so important a part of their lives. But when the drought struck, there was no droving to be done and the Bates family had just one aim, to try to save their own animals, for on them their livelihood depended.
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- y The Evolution of the Queensland Kid : Changing Literary Representations of Queensland Children in Children's and Adolescent Fiction St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1094605 1996 single work criticism
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'Learning to Accept Life as it Comes'
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 July 1970; (p. 23)
— Review of The Bates Family 1969 single work children's fiction -
Australiana
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , December no. 34 1969; (p. 35-38)
— Review of Platypus Joe 1969 selected work children's fiction ; The Lucky Stone 1969 single work children's fiction ; Six Days Between a Second 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Bates Family 1969 single work children's fiction ; Euloowirree Walkabout 1968 single work novel ; Blue Fin 1969 single work children's fiction
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'Learning to Accept Life as it Comes'
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 July 1970; (p. 23)
— Review of The Bates Family 1969 single work children's fiction -
Australiana
1969
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , December no. 34 1969; (p. 35-38)
— Review of Platypus Joe 1969 selected work children's fiction ; The Lucky Stone 1969 single work children's fiction ; Six Days Between a Second 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Bates Family 1969 single work children's fiction ; Euloowirree Walkabout 1968 single work novel ; Blue Fin 1969 single work children's fiction - y The Evolution of the Queensland Kid : Changing Literary Representations of Queensland Children in Children's and Adolescent Fiction St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2009 Z1094605 1996 single work criticism
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