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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Lurdurdminyi : Crescent Lagoon : Harold Giles' Version.
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Following the murder of a Chinese man by an Aboriginal man, the Northern Territory law enforcers decide to make an example of the offender by gathering as many Aboriginal people together as possible to witness his hanging. After this had taken place, the authorities distributed a variety of goods to the Aboriginal people supposedly to encourage good behaviour.

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Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains references to a Chinese character

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Big River Country : Stories from Elsey Station Francesca Merlan , Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1996 Z1371539 1996 anthology single work biography oral history extract life story Indigenous story

    'Elsey Station has long been famous as the setting for We of the Never-Never, Jeannie Gunn's Australian classic of pioneering outback life. In Big River Country, the Elsey is revealed through the words of the country's original inhabitants, the Mangarrayi and Yangman people of the Roper River area...' (Source: back cover)

    Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1996
    pg. 34-36
Last amended 29 Jan 2010 12:09:03
Subjects:
  • Roper River area, East Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
  • Queensland,
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