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The anthology is published by the University of Western Australia Library in co-operation with AustLit.
Contents
- Blue Hull and Bottlebrushi"It is raining still,", single work poetry
- Faithful Unto Death : An Original Tale, single work short story
- Mount Elizai"On Mount Eliza's gently-swelling height", single work poetry
- O'er a Native's Gravei"Poor child of earth - The rising sun,", single work poetry
- Climbing Bluff Knolli"My head peeks from the lattice:", single work poetry
- Noisy Scrub Birdi"Net is well spread, but the bird eludes it", single work poetry
- A New Songi"The Convicts are coming - oho! oho!", single work poetry humour
- A Swan River Ecloguei"Though the classical bards, to cajole us,", single work poetry
- Ode to West Australiai"Land of Forrests, fleas and flies,", single work poetry
- My Swag and Ii"When I tramp forth attended by", single work poetry
- Soaker Smithi"They tell no tale lugubrious", single work poetry
- When I Am Deadi"When I am dead", single work poetry
- Legend of the Yaa Yaa-rrs, the Little People, single work prose Indigenous story
- A Message from Moscow : Saint Mark's Evei"In a park in Perth,", single work poetry
- Matinsi"Listen a moment to the warbling birds,", single work poetry
- On Receiving from England a Bunch of Dried Wild Flowersi"Pale Ghosts! of fragrant things that grew among", single work poetry
- Requiescat In Pacei"Since all that is mere dust in me shall die,", single work poetry
- Through the Woodsi"The Spring has lent a softer, brighter hue", single work poetry
- To England Ministeringi"Thine be the meed of deep humanity,", single work poetry
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Fringedweller,
single work
autobiography
'Fringedweller describes the life of Robert Bropho, but as well that of nearly all Aboriginals in Australia. They live on the fringes of large and small communities in all the states under conditions of deprivation and almost unimaginable humiliation. Robert Bropho in this work takes us with him across the length and breadth of Australia, from Broome in the Kimberleys to the outskirts of Perth, to Ceduna in South Australia, and to Alice Springs and beyond in the centre. We experience what it is like to be an Aborigine, and we learn how they react to their circumstances and to the white people, and white officialdom, with whom they have to deal, and who have the power to decide the most detailed conditions of their lives. Bropho lives and breathes the wrongs of his people, and in this book we are able to grasp how such a man, with utter singleness of purpose, pleads cajoles and, sometimes, threatens, in order to bring their condition to the attention to their fellow white Australians. It is not a unique life, but what is exceptional is that for the first time we have the story told in the unembellished often ungrammatical words of one such sufferer. The book is, consequently unlike any other. The problem, Bropho says, won't go away - "We'll always be here, more numerous than ever". (Source: Inside cover)