Someone Else's Country
Published on 1. March 2009
417 pages
978-1-925161-90-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this fearless, funny, and profoundly moving Australian story, a small boy on a remote cattle station begins a profound journey into an Australia few whitefellas know. It is a journey into another place-a genuine meeting ground for black and white Australia and a place built on deep personal engagement and understanding.
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Peter Docker
Someone Else's Country
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03/2009
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Fremantle Press
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Content
- Cover
- About The Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Singing Country
- Look at me when I'm talking to you
- Tap! Tap! Ow!
- My loud mouth and tight moom
- All we've thought about
- You know how to talk to them
- Owl Dreamingand goin to the fucken pub
- Would you mind keeping it down?
- Lunch with Uncle
- Wars ya can't win
- War and peace
- Here is the situation
- Baba Du
- My good-luck boy
- You're right, Uncle
- Take us to Baba Du
- Dooligahs in Paradise
- You alright, my brother?
- Someone else's Country
- Ding! Come out fighting!
- Got it from cunts like you
- What you do
- Car's on fire
- Cuppa tea at my place
- The head of security
- St Kilda gubbahs
- Fairhaven footballers
- I've got your number
- Watch out for the landlords
- Half a cup
- Make a list
- The art of making yourself invisible
- Fly like a fucken eagle
- Two dead men
- Blood alcohol .1788
- Nunga John Wayne andsomething not right
- Cups of tea or flagons
- Crow feathers
- Wurrung (Warkee) (Waa) - the Crow
- Hiding from the killers
- Grog is the enemy
- Desert herbs and Dream Language
- Your jeans and the sunset
- Muriel-or-something
- Between the men
- Last night in Stolen Hill
- Our sad, lonely laughs
- Sacred Site
- Ya weren't doin it for me
- The only gub in the photo
- Two teams
- This champagne bottle is a rifle
- Had it all the time
- Soon it seems we must be ready
- They know how to treat theirwar veterans
- Moorroop blessing
- Favourite game
- Don't blink or you'll miss it
- Gum leaves, trains and crying babies
- Dad's story: Sunny in the dust
- He's your mate
- Planting seeds
- Waking dream in Uncle's eye
- Hair and Land and fucken bruising
- The ammo dump is on fire
- Outside the wire
- Holding on too tight
- Didjeridu
- Fucken hell! Did you see that?
- Exorcisms in English
- Learning the six-times-table
- Members only
- Easy to kill a man
- Can't get a house because of native title
- Yupella prom Tanning?
- There's Nyungars around
- Hockshops and a banana'sworth of speed
- We should never have given them citizenship
- Nar! We're prom K'rata!
- The first family to arrive
- Double-edged swords
- Spirits can smell ya
- Smell them Nyungars
- Fitzroy Street Wanjina
- Just another fucken wadjulasticking his beak in
- What I might do
- Go really good way
- And every night - singalong party
- Looked after by family
- Touching sorry scars
- Scars on the gravel footy oval
- Suck out the hate
- The winter(things hidden in my heart)
- What the People first saw
- What we first saw
- Bundi-sticks and tears on the freeway
- Naming names
- Finish-up
- Don't ever drink with them
- I can't say no
- The loop
- After all these years
- Adult conversations
- On the couch with Family
- Right where Jesus got the nail
- The Bro
- Welcome to Country
- In the system
- The same conversationmy whole life
- As Aussie as you are
- Blind leading the blind
- Greater love hath no man .
- Acknowledgements
