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Go For Broke re-lives the Palm Island strike of 1957 through a play written by Dulcie Isaro. As a fifteen-year-old girl, Dulcie witnessed her father's key role as one of the strike leaders and was expelled from Palm along with six other familles when the strike was brutally repressed. Still haunted by her memories, Dulcie returned to Palm Island in 1994 only to find that this proud chapter had all but been forgotten. (Film synopsis)
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The Day Palm Island Fought Back : The Strike of 1957
Dulcie Isaro
(illustrator),
Thuringowa
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Black Ink Press
,
2011
Z1903332
2011
single work
non-fiction
Indigenous story
'Dulcie grew up under 'The Act'. She was a fifteen year old girl in 1957, when her home of Palm Island in North Queensland was disturbed by a strike. On that day, her family's life changed forever, as Dulcie records in words and pictures. Essential reading for Queensland history.' (Source: Black Ink Press website)
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