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  • The Brutal Truth: What Happened in the Gulf Country

    Tony Roberts | The Monthly Essays | November 2009 | Politics | Society & Culture
    In 1881, a massive pastoral boom commenced in the top half of the Northern Territory, administered by the colonial government in Adelaide.1 Elsey Station on the Roper River – romanticised in Jeannie Gunn’s We of the Never Never – was the first to be established. These were huge stations, with an...