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y separately published work icon The Day Palm Island Fought Back : The Strike of 1957 single work   non-fiction   Indigenous story  
Note: Includes photographs from Dulcie Polowea Isaro's personal collection.
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Day Palm Island Fought Back : The Strike of 1957
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'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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  • Dedication: To my family and to all the seven families who were removed in 1957.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Thuringowa, Townsville area, Marlborough - Mackay - Townsville area, Queensland,: Black Ink Press , 2011 .
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      Extent: 40p.
      Description: illus., map
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      • Essential reading for Queensland history.
      ISBN: 9781921843143
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Related Works

form y separately published work icon Go For Broke Dulcie Isaro , St Kilda : Larrikin Films , 2007 Z1539516 2007 single work film/TV 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)
Strike of 57 Dulcie Isaro , 2007 single work drama

'Strike of 57' is based on the recollections of playwright Dulcie Isaro who is the daughter of striker Willie Thaiday. Dulcie was 14 years of age at the time of the strike.
Strike of '57 Remembered Alf Wilson , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 13 June no. 528 2012; (p. 29)
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Works about this Work

[Review] The Day Palm Island Fought Back : The Strike of 1957 Kevin Steinberger , 2013 single work
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 57 no. 1 2013; (p. 38)
— Review of The Day Palm Island Fought Back : The Strike of 1957 Dulcie Isaro , 2011 single work non-fiction
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Subjects:
  • Palm Island, Ingham area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
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