A Town is Born: The Fitzroy Crossing Story

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Town is Born: The Fitzroy Crossing Story
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Steve Hawke
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 150
Category/GenreAustralia, New Zealand & Pacific history
ISBN/Barcode 9781925936858
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Magabala Books
Imprint Magabala Books
Publication Date 1 November 2019
Publication Country Australia

Description

The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote pastoral regions of the north. But in these tropical parts the winds of change did not bring the anti-war movement, the counterculture, feminism, or the other issues that preoccupied the cities. Rather, they blew down an industry, a regime, a culture that for the best part of a century had thrived on a semi-feudal system of co-dependence between the all-powerful station bosses, and large communities of unpaid Aboriginal workers and their families. In the course of a couple of years the township of Fitzroy Crossing in the remote Kimberley changed from a tiny frontier outpost, to a refugee camp with hundreds of people living in fringe camps in third world conditions. From this maelstrom a unique community emerged, with a strong ethos of cooperation and support amongst the various peoples of the Fitzroy Valley.