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Includes stanzas illustrative and descriptive of Australian wild flowers. (Miller)
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Epigraph: I love Flowers as forming one of the sweetest lines in the God-written poetry of the Universe, - as one of the blessings accessible to all nations, climes and and classes. Romance of Nature. - L.A.M.
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Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today.
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Meredith recounts an incident whereby Aboriginal people are accused of murdering a settler family. Her description of the Palawa people of Tasmania and distortion of facts is offensive and should be treated with caution. The Palawa people are the descendants of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. The Palawa are the descendants of the Aborigines taken to the islands in Bass Strait after becoming the wives of European sealers in 1835. The other group known as Lia Pootah are the descendants of those who remained on the mainland as servants and those who managed to remain in small tribal groups.
Source: McFarlane, I. Beyond Awakening: The Aboriginal tribes of North West Tasmania. Fullers Bookshop, 2008.
Flood, J. The Original Australian of Aboriginal People. Allen and Unwin, 2006.
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For other works listed in AustLit about the Palawa people follow the 'Palawa Tasmanian' link in the list of General subjects above.
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Bush Friends in Tasmania and Loved and Lost
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 60-61)
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Bush Friends in Tasmania and Loved and Lost
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 60-61)