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It depicts the family life of the darceys, who live in a post war sydney slum called surry hills, and the everyday problems which beset them in this poverty and violence ridden area. Lists of australian fiction and novels by australian authors australian fiction fictional books, australia true crime, general fiction, bookstore australian online bookshop. University of newcastle, australia you might get a little reference to a hunting party going off somewhere in a colonial. Bruce pascoe author of the critically acclaimed dark emu, this book. Doc evatt was charismatic leader of the australian labour party for many of the wilderness years.
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