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Brown Nicholas <1961-> |
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Titolo |
A way through : the life of Rick Farley / / Nicholas Brown and Susan Boden |
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Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-74224-137-9 |
1-74224-558-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (595 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political activists - Australia |
Human rights workers - Australia |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-341) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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