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Author Donovan, P. F.

Title Alice Springs, its history & the people who made it / Peter Donovan
Published Alice Springs, N.T. : Alice Springs Town Council, 1988

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 W'PONDS  994.291 Don/Asi  AVAILABLE
Description 399 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary Covers history of relations between Aborigines and explorers, pastoralists, miners and settlers; conflicts, particularly Barrow Creek and Coniston killings; establishment of Hermannsburg, and Catholic missions and the Bungalow; work of Olive Pink; Aboriginal wartime army labour force; later tensions because of alcoholism, establishment of town camps, land rights movements, threats to sacred sites by expansion of Alice Springs; exposure through film of Jedda, art of Albert Namatjira and CAAMA
Analysis Alice Springs
Alice Springs Town Council
History
Notes Available from The Secretary, Alice Springs Town Council, Todd Street, Alice Springs, N.T. 5750
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 369-390
Subject Alice Springs (N.T.). Council
Allergy -- Popular works.
SUBJECT Alice Springs (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82070039 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Author Alice Springs (N.T.). Council
LC no. anb73163346
ISBN 0731633466