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Roaming around Australia


Frank Clune

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Not having the luxury of a dust jacket for words of wisdom, I'll quote from part of the introduction, charmingly called 'Preliminary Canter'

In the last phases of the war early in 1945 I made a circular tour of Australia and which is described in these pages. I wanted particularly to visit Australia's own frontier along the empty western and northern coast where tens of thousands of were standing on guard defending their Motherland against an Asiatic aggression...

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299 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947
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January 10, 2020
I have read three Frank Clune Books prior to this one, and to say that I was disappointed with this effort would be to make an understatement.

It were awful.

The author has changed from a free and easy writer who can't believe his luck that people want to read his works, to one who is so full of his own self worth and clever ability with the written word that it is sickening.

The book is rubbish and is basically a thinly veiled paid advertisement for the advancement of his crackpot ideas about 'what's wrong' with Northern Australia and how to fix it. Its not that his itinerary was in any way dull, it had the bones to make a cracking yarn about outback Australia, its people and its history, but no, he has to keep banging on about carving up the big land holding and settling millions of people in the far north along the big rivers. This was printed in 1947 and guess what? No much has changed in the territory in question because it can't be done, except for the Old river and that has come with its share of difficulties, disasters and disappointments

And then there is the underlying suspicion that he is being paid to write this drivel to someone else's tune: how else could he in 1947 with the country still on a wartime footing, be flown all about by the RAAF and how come he has entree to this Minister and that Minister and can pull string seemingly at will?

Sorry Frank, this one is a dud

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