DARWIN: SURVIVAL OF A CITY PRT531 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres

Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: Celebrating 20 Years (2004)

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Moose finds antlers for him

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It is a story that all Australians should know

DARWIN: SURVIVAL OF A CITY PRT531 Telstra National Aboriginal & TorresThe last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their 'white elephant' and, when Palmerston blew away in the Great Hurricane of 1897, the calls for the Northern Territory's return to the British Colonial Government grew louder. But the