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'The first step on Ruth's journey is towards freedom. After twenty-two years under government control as an inmate of Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission, she marries and enters an inviting yet uncertain world in the nearby settlement with her husband Joe. The settlement — with its origins as a camp for displaced Aboriginal families, its system of food rations and shortage of housing and jobs — is a difficult start for the young couple. Humour, a supportive circle of family and friends and Ruth's own resourcefulness prevail, and eventually the Hegartys achieve the basics of a house for their growing family.
The invasive powers of the Native Affairs Department continue to affect their lives even when, years later, they move to the city. Ruth's determination and irrepressible sense of fairness ... characterise a life vigorously committed to social justice and community causes.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: I dedicate this book to Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement.
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Sequel to Is That You Ruthie?
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[Review Essay] Bittersweet Journey
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— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , March vol. 1 no. 1 2006;
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[Review Essay] Bittersweet Journey
2004
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— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 19 no. 2 2004; (p. 232)
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The Need to Belong : Non-Fiction Publishing in Australia, 2003-2004
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— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 96-114)
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Paperbacks
2004
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— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 January 2004; (p. 19)
— Review of Bittersweet Journey 2003 single work autobiography
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Memoir
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— Appears in: The Age , 8 November 2003; (p. 6)
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Bitter-Sweet...
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 19 November no. 314 2003; (p. 37)
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In Short : Non-Fiction
2003
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 December 2003; (p. 17)
— Review of Bittersweet Journey 2003 single work autobiography ; My Island Home : A Torres Strait Memoir 2003 single work autobiography -
Paperbacks
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 January 2004; (p. 19)
— Review of Bittersweet Journey 2003 single work autobiography -
The Need to Belong : Non-Fiction Publishing in Australia, 2003-2004
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 96-114)
— Review of Island and Otherland : Christopher Koch and His Books 2003 single work criticism ; The Diaries of Donald Friend. Volume 2 2003 selected work diary ; The Diaries of Miles Franklin 2004 selected work diary ; Can I Call You Colin? : The Authorised Biography of Colin Thiele 2004 single work biography ; The Sparrow Garden Marianna Lacek (translator), 2004 single work autobiography ; Minerva's Owl Excerpts from Exile 2003 single work biography ; Inside Out : An Autobiography 2004 single work autobiography ; Bittersweet Journey 2003 single work autobiography ; Bud : A Life 2004 single work autobiography ; Dhuuluu-Yala : To Talk Straight : Publishing Indigenous Literature 2003 multi chapter work criticism ; Two Sisters : Ngarta and Jukuna Eirlys Richards (translator), 2004 selected work autobiography biography ; Very Big Journey : My Life as I Remember It 2004 single work autobiography ; Shadow Lines 2003 single work biography ; Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003 anthology criticism ; The Station at Austin Downs : One Family's Adventure on the Land 2004 single work autobiography ; Down to the Sea : A True Saga of an Australian Fishing Dynasty 2004 single work biography ; Tanami : On Foot Across Australia's Desert Heart 2003 single work autobiography ; Great Australian Droving Stories 2003 selected work short story ; Great Australian Drinking Stories 2003 anthology short story prose ; James Stirling : Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia 2003 single work biography ; About Face : Asian Accounts of Australia 2003 single work criticism ; Chinese Women and the Global Village : An Australian Site 2003 single work prose ; Semar's Cave : An Indonesian Journal 2004 single work prose ; Life and Death in the Age of Sail : The Passage to Australia 2003 single work non-fiction ; The Girl from Botany Bay : The True Story of Mary Broad and Her Extraordinary Escape 2004 single work biography ; Legacies of White Australia : Race, Culture and Nation 2003 anthology essay ; The Best Australian Essays 2003 2003 anthology essay autobiography interview prose review obituary ; Death Sentence : The Decay of Public Language 2003 single work prose ; Great Australian Fishing Stories 2003 selected work short story -
Indigenous Life Stories
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 209-218)
- Cherbourg, Murgon - Wondai area, Kingaroy - Murgon - Kilkivan - Woolooga area, Central West Queensland, Queensland,
- Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, Cherbourg, Murgon - Wondai area, Kingaroy - Murgon - Kilkivan - Woolooga area, Central West Queensland, Queensland,