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Old 10-18-2006, 07:22 PM   #23
Buddug
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busterby asked if anyone knew about a writer who wrote about the 'early days' in Australia . The early days in Australia were about 40,000 years ago , but the Aborigines did not write in our modern sense .
I therefore take it that busterby means to refer to the early COLONIAL days in Australia . If so , you should read Henry Lawson . 'The Drover's Wife' is perhaps his best short story , and is seen as an Aussie classic . There is a snake in the house , and the husband ( the drover ) is absent . The drover's wife is sunburnt and hardy , and there are children in the house . The snake scene is described in the present tense . The writing may be clumsy sometimes, but it rings true and clear . It is the beginning of white Australian literature .
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