Mrs Hay & the S.S. Waratah – Final Passage

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Mrs Hay & the S.S. Waratah - Final Passage

Agnes Grant Hay was the very wealthy widow of  South Australian pastoralist, merchant and politician, Alexander Gosse  Hay.  She was an inveterate traveller…and an author;   After spending many months in England and Scotland during 1908, Mrs Hay and her unmarried daughter  Helen (Dolly) returned home on

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LES MURRAY; COWSHEDS AND CONCRETE

On August 1, 2018   /   Blog   /   2 Comments
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LES MURRAY; COWSHEDS AND CONCRETE

As a Baby Boomer I grew up with little exposure to Australian literature.  It was all English boarding school stories,  Enid Blyton and Charles Dickens. My early knowledge of poets was limited to those represented in a primary school textbook called (appropriately in my case) Poems for

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