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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Unbranded
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'From the riotous picnic races to the famous Mt Isa rodeo, from childhood in the yumba to gutsy outback pubs, Unbranded presents a strikingly original vision of Australia. With a rollicking cast of stockmen, shearers, barmaids and tourists, this novel is the story of three men. Sandy is a white man; Bindi, a Murri; Mulga is related on his mother's side to Bindi, and on his Irish father's side to Sandy. Their saga . and enduring friendship . covers forty years in the mulga country of the far west. It tells how Sandy achieves his dream of owning a cattle empire; how Bindi regains part of his tribal lands for his people, and how Mulga finally sits down to write about their shared experiences. Mulga's journey also brings him face-to-face with the dark side of urban despair and his people's struggle with alcohol...' (Source: WorldCat website)

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Works about this Work

Fictionalised Autobiography and the Philosophical Novel Ken L. Goodwin , single work review
— Review of Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel ; Flying Low : A Novel Geoffrey Dutton , 1992 single work novel
Anti-Nativism in Australian Indigenous Literature Teresa Podemska-Abt , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kultura Historia Globalizacja , no. 7 2010; (p. 53-64)
'What in today's literary discourse are the reality and the world created by the words: nativism, nativity, the native, native? Why do we still speak and communicate with them and use them in different contexts, even though we know that these words often carry a negative emotional meaning load, taking us to spaces, times, and experiences of colonial suffering, despite their basis in academic arguments. In Australia such issues have been addressed by many Indigenous writers, amongst them — M. Langton, A. Moreton- Robinson, Mudrooroo, C. Watego, T. Birch, F. Bayet — Charlton, to name just a few.' (Author's introduction)
Good Enough for Shakespeare Rosemary Sorensen , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 November 2004; (p. 23)
Untitled June Senyard , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 1 no. 2 1993; (p. 40)

— Review of Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel
Untitled Helen Horton , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 95-97)

— Review of Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel
Untitled Geoff Sharrock , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 147 1992-1993; (p. 61)

— Review of Tanglewood Kristin Williamson , 1992 single work novel ; Adelaide Banks Anne Berzel , 1992 single work novel ; Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel
Branded and Unbranded Cynthia Blanche , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 37 no. 5 1993; (p. 80-82)

— Review of Tanglewood Kristin Williamson , 1992 single work novel ; Honk If You Are Jesus Peter Goldsworthy , 1992 single work novel ; The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories 1991 anthology short story extract ; Woman of the Inner Sea Thomas Keneally , 1992 single work novel ; Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel
Forecasts Diana Giese , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 72 no. 1029 1992; (p. 28)

— Review of Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel
Prison Dreaming Raises the Spirits Jack Davis , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 31 October 1992; (p. 8)

— Review of Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel ; Wildcat Screaming : A Novel Mudrooroo , 1992 single work novel
Novels of the Outback Depict Warmth and Integrity Stan Barney , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 November 1992; (p. 22)

— Review of Unbranded Herb Wharton , 1992 single work novel ; Eileen Margaret Card , 1992 single work novel
Good Enough for Shakespeare Rosemary Sorensen , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 November 2004; (p. 23)
Breaks and Connections : 'Breaks in Time' : A Warana Writers' Week Highlight Christine MacLachlan , 1992 single work column
— Appears in: Scope , November vol. 37 no. 10 1992; (p. 15)
Anti-Nativism in Australian Indigenous Literature Teresa Podemska-Abt , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kultura Historia Globalizacja , no. 7 2010; (p. 53-64)
'What in today's literary discourse are the reality and the world created by the words: nativism, nativity, the native, native? Why do we still speak and communicate with them and use them in different contexts, even though we know that these words often carry a negative emotional meaning load, taking us to spaces, times, and experiences of colonial suffering, despite their basis in academic arguments. In Australia such issues have been addressed by many Indigenous writers, amongst them — M. Langton, A. Moreton- Robinson, Mudrooroo, C. Watego, T. Birch, F. Bayet — Charlton, to name just a few.' (Author's introduction)
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