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By: Sue Davenport

ISBN: 9780855754570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
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This is the story of first contact between a young aboriginal woman, Yuwali, and European Australia. It happened in 1964, but its genesis began in 1947, when the Commonwealth Government announced a rocket testing range was to be located at Woomera - Yuwali's country. Highly illustrated with images from the sixties.


(Paperback)

By: Sue Davenport

ISBN: 9780855757106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
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In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians. They had been pursued by patrol officers for several weeks. Yuwali, 17 at the time, remembers every detail of the drama.