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Derek Pugh
Publikováno v:
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol 24, Iss 1 (1996)
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/8aa690cf714945f28ecf8f2d61fb351f
Autor:
Derek Pugh
The 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 ha
Autor:
Derek Pugh
For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation and death. For one man, it was the'most useless, ill-managed hold in Her Majesty's dominions'which des
Autor:
Derek Pugh
A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in the town's well. Once called Palmerston, the City of Darwin began in the 1870s. Darwin was a pioneer'
Autor:
Derek Pugh
The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby sister was already dead, hit by a slug in the first volley or drowned, but a young man lying on the sand wit
Autor:
Derek Pugh
This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's
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Derek Pugh
The 1880s started with a boom in Palmerston and the Top End. South Australian investors flocked to put their money into gold mines, sugar and coffee plantations, and the pastoral industry. Cattle stations bigger than a British county were carved out
Autor:
Derek Pugh
In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders'Trail that stretched across the Northern Territory into the wild Kimberley region. They stole cattle with audacity, brazenly held up pubs and cattle stations, and drove a herd of
Autor:
Derek Pugh
Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location.
Autor:
Richard Creswick, Derek Pugh
Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction acr