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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479898903321

Autore

Brown Nicholas <1961->

Titolo

A way through : the life of Rick Farley / / Nicholas Brown and Susan Boden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-74224-137-9

1-74224-558-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (595 p.)

Disciplina

323.092

Soggetti

Political activists - Australia

Human rights workers - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-341) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Authors' Notes; Map of Key Locations; 1: 'Never Tired, never Sad, never Guilty'; 2: 'As Trendy as it was Possible to be'; 3: 'Not Like a Cattleman'; 4: 'Superhick'; 5: 'Stiletto Man'; 6: 'Starting to Understand'; 7: 'The Best Deal Possible'; 8: 'The Great Rick Farley'; 9: 'The better for having known him'; Afterword; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Rick Farley was an extraordinary man. As head of the Cattlemen's Union and National Farmers Federation, a key figure in the Landcare movement and a public campaigner for Indigenous rights and Reconciliation, Farley had an insiders view of many key political and social changes in Australia over his thirty years in the public eye.