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The text is deliberately plainspoken and attentive to voice, shaped by storytelling rather than literary flourish. Its importance lies less in narrative construction than in its function as testimony: a record of labour, displacement, family, and continuity, situated within a Western Australian context often marginalised in national accounts. The book remains a key teaching text in Indigenous studies and Australian social history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"1131\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"984\"\u003eEdition note:\u003c\/em\u003e First edition. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1989. Paperback. Printed in Western Australia. 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