A Better Place to Live: Making the Top End a New Kind of CommunityThis fascinating title looks at the emergence of Darwin post WWII from war ravaged outpost, to Australia's fastest growing city in the 1960s. Diana Giese draws on the experience of her parents to paint this essential piece of Australian history in vivid detail, capturing the voices and the personalities of our Top End pioneers. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 15 |
Section 4 | 20 |
Section 5 | 21 |
Section 6 | 30 |
Section 7 | 32 |
Section 8 | 33 |
Section 12 | 63 |
Section 13 | 70 |
Section 14 | 71 |
Section 15 | 77 |
Section 16 | 79 |
Section 17 | 82 |
Section 18 | 83 |
Section 19 | 87 |
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1984 interview Aboriginal Aboriginal Education Adelaide Administrator Alice Springs Arnhem Land Arts Council assistance Australian Bamyili Branch Annual Report building Canberra Chan Chinese Australians Collection Commonwealth cultural Cyclone Tracy Daly River dance Darwin High School Diana Giese Eisteddfod elected Giese saw Giese's Grade Softball Grant Tambling Groote Eylandt groups H.C. Giese Harold Garner Harry Giese Havnen Ibid indigenous Information Service interview with Diana Jack-Hinton Joyce Cheong Chin Kormilda College Lanhupuy Legislative Council Lew Fatt Library and Information living missions Nan Giese Nancy Giese Nightcliff Northern Territory Archives Northern Territory University NT Library part-Aboriginal pastoral properties patrol officers Paul Hasluck performed Pioneers Planning a Program policies post-War pre-school Ray Chin Reg Marsh section head settlements Shades of Darkness Side Sydney Tape 26 teachers Ted Egan Tennant Creek Territorians Territory Archives Service Territory's Theatre Top End Welfare Branch Annual Yirrkala