The Call of the Outback, page 24
230 ‘Why stay in a room’: Letter, EH to Bill Moore, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
31 Bob
231 ‘He looked really wild’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
232 ‘how he was getting on’: Letters, EH to Bob Hill, 1956–57, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
232 ‘It was she who preached [the] “romance” of the Australian Outback’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
232 ‘her 61st birthday’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
233 ‘All that travelling around’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
233 ‘an alternating wail’: Ibid.
233 ‘my life is getting out of hand’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, December 1959, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
233 ‘I have been working away’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, 1960, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
233 ‘All dressed up’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, 1958, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
234 ‘a good and earnest little girl’: Letter, EH to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, 1961, National Library of Australia, MS 1634.
235 ‘Australia has changed before our eyes’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, 1960, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
235 ‘the drunks singing down stairs’: Ibid.
235 ‘My mother’s people were Irish’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, undated, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
235 ‘she insisted on having her typewriter’: Letter, Bob Hill to Beatrice Davis, 1960, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
236 ‘if Beatrice could help’: Ibid.
236 ‘Sydney has never made her happy’: Letter, Beatrice Davis to Bob Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
236 ‘Archibald would moan’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, 1961, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
236 ‘I don’t want to be connected to the new management’: Ibid.
237 ‘everyone at A&R’: Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, Viking, Melbourne, 2001, p. 85.
237 ‘The British promised’: Richard Walsh, personal recollection.
237 ‘of course I won’t leave them’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, 1963, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
32 Disasters and grandchildren
238 ‘Most family arguments were very Irish’: Letter, EH to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, National Library of Australia, MS 1634.
238 ‘my second wind’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, November 1963, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
239 ‘still drinking’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, 1963, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
239 ‘There is no question of alcohol neurosis’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, 1959, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
239 ‘New Space Age’: Letter, EH to Ann Tully, 1964, J S Battye Library of West Australian History, Private Archives, MN 0071 Acc 7273A.
240 ‘Bob and Jacky’: Bob Hill and Jacqueline Scrivener were married on 22 February 1962.
240 ‘a little car for the beaches’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, 1962, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
240 ‘He wears a cross’: Letter, EH to Coy Bateson, 1961, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
241 ‘The photos could earns us hundreds’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
242 ‘Although the publisher had just contracted Elizabeth Salter’: Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, Viking, Melbourne, 2001, p. 86.
242 ‘with big pop-eyes’: Letter, EH to Bill Moore, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
242 ‘Ernestine, however, remained adamant’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
243 ‘he turned to A&R in 1969’: Letter, Bob Hill to Beatrice Davis, March 1969, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
243 ‘Beatrice Davis did not think’: Letter, Beatrice Davis to Bob Hill, 14 March 1969, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
243 ‘Found living in Adelaide too cold’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
246 ‘an old harpy actress’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
246 ‘Sir John Kerr was rejected’: Carolyn Webb, ‘Sam Fullbrook dies’, The Age (Melbourne, Vic), 5 February 2004.
246 ‘Katharine Hepburn’: ‘Hepburn and Helpmann to make a film,’ Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 25 November 1969, p. 3.
The lady in the blue dress
251 ‘I did forget to put the drunks in’: Email, Louise Campbell to author, 2006.
253 ‘women are as rare as roses’: EH, The Great Australian Loneliness, Jarrolds, London, 1937, p. 208.
Epilogue
254 ‘Just under a tree’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
254 ‘Olivetti typewriter and a camera’: Letter, Charles Bateson to A&R, 1972, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
254 ‘Her executor, Charles Bateson’: Letter, Charles Bateson to A&R, 1972, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
255 ‘the great secret’: Email, John Miller to author, 23 November 2007.
255 ‘bit of a gambling problem’: Ibid.
255 ‘obsessive about the considerable Packer legacy’: Ibid.
255 ‘would waste all his earnings’: Ibid.
255 ‘Bob was always putting himself down’: Ibid.
255 ‘quite a fretful person’: Email, Louise Campbell to author, 9 May 2006.
Bibliography
PRIMARY SOURCES
Works by Ernestine Hill
Books
Australia: Land of Contrasts, edited by Sydney Ure Smith, John Sands Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1943.
Flying Doctor Calling: The Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1947.
Kabbarli: A personal memoir of Daisy Bates, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973.
My Love Must Wait: The story of Matthew Flinders, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1941.
Paul Johns’ Statement about Lasseter, as Told to Ernestine Hill, Scrivener Press, Adelaide, 1968.
Peter Pan Land and Other Poems, Hibernian Newspaper Co., Brisbane, 1916.
‘Story of the state’, in The Centenary Chronicle, Advertiser Newspapers Limited, Adelaide, 1936.
The Great Australian Loneliness, Jarrolds, London, 1937.
The Territory, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1951.
Water into Gold, Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1937.
Magazine and newspaper articles
1930
‘A Cossack “graveyard” ’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 October 1930.
‘Race carnival’, Sydney Sun (Sydney, NSW), 8 November 1930.
‘Scorching days in the nor’west’, The Mail (Adelaide, SA), 13 December 1930.
1931
‘The tragedy of Henry Lee’, Sunday Times (Perth, WA), 4 January 1931.
‘Savage Arnhemland’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 6 February 1931.
‘A swaggie in the Kimberley’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 13 June 1931.
‘Gordon and Kendall’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 7 October 1931.
1932
‘The woman of Ooldea’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 June 1932.
‘Where Australians bow to Allah’, Northern Standard (Darwin, NT), 7 October 1932.
‘Granites is gold city in embryo’, The Mail (Adelaide, SA), 15 October 1932.
‘Man with the green umbrella’, The Mail (Adelaide, SA), 22 October 1932.
‘Bank for Granites gold’, The News (Adelaide, SA), 31 October 1932.
‘The strange case of Mrs Widgety’, The Sun (Sydney, NSW), 18 December 1932.
1933
‘New township’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 4 February 1933.
‘Six days on a camel’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 February 1933.
‘Outback confidence men’, Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), 2 April 1933.
‘Darwin’, Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld), 18 April 1933.
‘Gallant voyagers of the north’, The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), 3 September 1933.
‘Disgrace’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 30 September 1933.
‘Library hidden in jungle’, The Chronicle (Adelaide, SA), 2 November 1933.
‘Trek from Granites begging lifts’, The News (Adelaide, SA), 22 November 1933.
‘Human moles of Cooper Pedy’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 16 December 1933.
1934
‘Thrilling voyage of Sea Scouts’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 12 March 1934.
‘Scouts on Silver Gull’, Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), 18 March 1934.
‘Glory of the gardens’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 31 May 1934.
‘Reading with fingers’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 8 June 1934.
‘The tragic Territory’, The Chronicle (Adelaide, SA), 21 June 1934.
‘Pies and pioneers’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 26 June 1934.
‘Woman who loves children: Mrs Lydia Longmore’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 5 July 1934.
‘Parakeet and lorikeet’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 23 July 1934.
‘Coffee as we ought to know it’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 17 November 1934.
‘Our cup of tea’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 22 November 1934.
1935
‘Big event for Alice Springs’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 24 January 1935.
‘Visit to Winnecke Goldfield’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 25 January 1935.
‘Need for hospital’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 26 January 1935.
‘Criminal sittings at Alice Springs’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 1 February 1935.
‘Alice Springs Court today’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 6 February 1935.
‘A town goes west’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 9 March 1935.
‘Shooting big game with a camera’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 24 July 1935.
1948
‘After twenty years’, The Examiner (Launceston, Tas), 28 January 1948.
1950
‘A figure in history’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 16 September 1950.
1952
‘There is gold on the goldfields’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 27 September 1952.
‘A home for the old folks of gold’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 October 1952.
1953
‘Australian literature’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 18 July 1953.
Archives and manuscripts
Private Archives, J S Battye Library of West Australian History, Perth
Papers of the Durack Family, MN 0071 Acc 7273A
Papers of William Robert Easton, MN 1826 Acc 5408A
Papers of John Keith Ewers, MN 1870 Acc 5340A, 5459A
Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library
Ernestine Hill Collection, UQFL18
Louise Campbell Collection, UQFL120
The Heritage Collections of the State Library of Queensland
Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, M296
Papers of Timothy Keleher, OM 73-73
National Archives of Australia, Canberra
Papers of Prime Minister John Curtin, M1415, 431
Ernestine Hill, re exemption of son from military service, NAA: A472, W16168
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Papers of Henrietta Drake-Brockman, MS 1634
State Library of NSW
Correspondence between A&R/Beatrice Davis and writer Henrietta Drake-Brockman; and between A&R/Beatrice Davis and Ernestine Hill, A&R Files, ML MSS 3269
SECONDARY SOURCES
Books, essays and lectures
Bates, Daisy, The Passing of the Aborigines, John Murray, London, 1938.
Baume, F.E., Tragedy Track: The story of the Granites, F.C. Johnson, Sydney, 1933.
Berrington, Minnie, Stones of Fire, Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1958.
Blackburn, Julia, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1994.
Boland, T.P., James Duhig, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia (Qld), 1987.
Brockwell, Sally & Tom Gara, Sarah Colley & Scott Cane, The History and Archaeology of Ooldea Soak and Mission, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., 2011.
Drake-Brockman, Henrietta, Sheba Lane, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1936.
Dudley Edwards, Ruth & Bridget Hourican, An Atlas of Irish History, Routledge, London and New York, 2005.
Durack, Mary, Kings in Grass Castles, Constable and Company Ltd, London, 1959.
——, Sons in the Saddle, Constable, Hutchinson, London, 1983.
Francis, Rae Professor, Women in White Australia, lecture given at Monash University, 24 September 2013.
Griffen-Foley, Bridget, Sir Frank Packer: A biography, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2014.
Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors: The antiquarian imagination in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1996.
Inglis, Kenneth S., This Is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932–1983, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983.
Isaacs, Victor & Rod Kirkpatrick, Two Hundred Years of Sydney Newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd, NSW, 2003.
Kenneally, Kevin, Exploration and Botany: The W.R. Easton 1921 Expedition, Kimberley Society, Broome, 2013.
Kent, Jacqueline, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, Viking, Melbourne, 2001.
Kotai-Ewers, Patricia, The Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA) from 1938 to 1980 and its role in the cultural life of Perth, Thesis, Murdoch University, November 2013.
Laugesen, Amanda, Writing the North-West Past and Present: The 1930s fiction and drama of Henrietta Drake-Brockman, History Australia, vol. 8, no. 1 (2011), pp. 109–26.
Lea, Tess, Darwin, New South Books, Sydney, 2014.
MacDonald, Lorna, Rockhampton: History of a city and district, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1981.
Manning, Arthur, Larger Than Life: The story of Eric Baume, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1967.
Mayne, Alan & Stephen Atkinson, Outside Country: A history of inland Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 2011.
Morris, Meaghan, Identity Anecdotes: Translation and media culture, Sage Publications, London, 2006.
Murch, Ria, Arthur Murch: An artist’s life 1902–1989, Ruskin Rowe Press, Avalon Beach, 1997.
Niall, Brenda, True North: The story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2012.
Norman, John E. De Burgh & Verity Norman, Journey of a Master Pearler 1886–1942, Kimberley Society, Broome, 2006.
O’Connor, Desmond, Helping People Has Been My Happiness: The contribution of Elena Rubero to the Italian community in South Australia, in Sue Williams et al (eds), The Regenerative Spirit, vol. 2, (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re) presentations—Australian Post-Colonial Reflections, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2003, pp. 93–101.
Olsten, Rob, Farina: From gibbers to ghost town, Bundinyabba Publications, Lake Wendouree, Vic, 2009.
Reece, Bob, Daisy Bates: Grand dame of the desert, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2007.
Reid, Richard, The Irish in Australia, National Museum of Australia. www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/irish_in_australia/irish_in_australia
Salter, Elizabeth, Daisy Bates, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Inc, New York, 1972.
Sheahan-Bright, Robyn & Craig Munro, Paper Empires 1946–2005, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 2006.
Smith, Eleanor, Isle of Girls, Paterson, Perth, 1953.
Speake, Jennifer, Literature of Travel and Exploration: An encyclopaedia, Routledge, New York, 2003.
Stephens, Phil & Matt, The Flood of 1929, Launceston Historical Society Inc (Flood), Launceston, 1929.
Strehlow, T.G.H., Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1969.
Radio plays, TV interviews and sound recordings
Hill, Ernestine, Santa Clause of Christmas Creek in Australian Radio Plays, 5AN (ABC Radio), Adelaide, 28 December 1938.
Denton, Andrew, interview with Ted Egan on Enough Rope, ABC TV, 2 August 2004.
Mascall, Sharon, BBC One Minute World News: The Women Who Dig for Opal, 20 October 2005.
Treagus, Aileen, ‘We remember Daisy Bates’, State Library of South Australia OH541/11 Margaret Kelsh, 5 October 1999.
———, ‘We remember Daisy Bates’, State Library of South Australia OH541/10 Rae Brewster, 5 October 1999.
Sources, written communication and interviews
Flight of Ducks, an online documentary developed by Simon Pockley in 1995 that revolves around the 1933 journal of Simon’s father, John Antill Pockley: www.duckdigital.net/FOD/
Libby Allen: Email correspondence with author as well as personal files on the Foster-Lynam Family.
Sally Hinks, daughter of Eleanor Smith: Email and telephone correspondence with author.
Email and letter correspondence between author and Louise Campbell.
Email correspondence between author and John Miller.
Newspaper, magazine and journal articles
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA)
Byrne, Bob, ‘Remember the South Australian Hotel?’, 24 June 2014.
‘Daisy Bates: The passing of a remarkable woman’, 20 April 1951.
‘Defrauded persons who befriended him: How Frederick Hopkins impersonated Ernestine Hill’, 11 September 1933.
‘Doctors to study Aborigines’, 4 January 1933.
‘Great interest in new goldfield’, 16 September 1932.
‘Keeping alive the memory of a remarkable woman’, 16 November 1954.
‘ “My Natives and I”: Publication to begin tomorrow’, 3 January 1936.
‘My Natives and I’, 4 January 1936, p. 8.
‘650 miles to receive honour’, 23 May 1934.
31 Bob
231 ‘He looked really wild’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
232 ‘how he was getting on’: Letters, EH to Bob Hill, 1956–57, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
232 ‘It was she who preached [the] “romance” of the Australian Outback’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
232 ‘her 61st birthday’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
233 ‘All that travelling around’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
233 ‘an alternating wail’: Ibid.
233 ‘my life is getting out of hand’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, December 1959, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
233 ‘I have been working away’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, 1960, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
233 ‘All dressed up’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, 1958, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
234 ‘a good and earnest little girl’: Letter, EH to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, 1961, National Library of Australia, MS 1634.
235 ‘Australia has changed before our eyes’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, 1960, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
235 ‘the drunks singing down stairs’: Ibid.
235 ‘My mother’s people were Irish’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, undated, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
235 ‘she insisted on having her typewriter’: Letter, Bob Hill to Beatrice Davis, 1960, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
236 ‘if Beatrice could help’: Ibid.
236 ‘Sydney has never made her happy’: Letter, Beatrice Davis to Bob Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
236 ‘Archibald would moan’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, 1961, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
236 ‘I don’t want to be connected to the new management’: Ibid.
237 ‘everyone at A&R’: Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, Viking, Melbourne, 2001, p. 85.
237 ‘The British promised’: Richard Walsh, personal recollection.
237 ‘of course I won’t leave them’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, 1963, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
32 Disasters and grandchildren
238 ‘Most family arguments were very Irish’: Letter, EH to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, National Library of Australia, MS 1634.
238 ‘my second wind’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, November 1963, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
239 ‘still drinking’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, 1963, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
239 ‘There is no question of alcohol neurosis’: Letter, EH to Beatrice Davis, 1959, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
239 ‘New Space Age’: Letter, EH to Ann Tully, 1964, J S Battye Library of West Australian History, Private Archives, MN 0071 Acc 7273A.
240 ‘Bob and Jacky’: Bob Hill and Jacqueline Scrivener were married on 22 February 1962.
240 ‘a little car for the beaches’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, 1962, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
240 ‘He wears a cross’: Letter, EH to Coy Bateson, 1961, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
241 ‘The photos could earns us hundreds’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
242 ‘Although the publisher had just contracted Elizabeth Salter’: Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life, Viking, Melbourne, 2001, p. 86.
242 ‘with big pop-eyes’: Letter, EH to Bill Moore, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
242 ‘Ernestine, however, remained adamant’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
243 ‘he turned to A&R in 1969’: Letter, Bob Hill to Beatrice Davis, March 1969, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
243 ‘Beatrice Davis did not think’: Letter, Beatrice Davis to Bob Hill, 14 March 1969, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
243 ‘Found living in Adelaide too cold’: Letter, EH to Wirlie Moore, Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, M296.
246 ‘an old harpy actress’: Letter, EH to Bob Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
246 ‘Sir John Kerr was rejected’: Carolyn Webb, ‘Sam Fullbrook dies’, The Age (Melbourne, Vic), 5 February 2004.
246 ‘Katharine Hepburn’: ‘Hepburn and Helpmann to make a film,’ Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 25 November 1969, p. 3.
The lady in the blue dress
251 ‘I did forget to put the drunks in’: Email, Louise Campbell to author, 2006.
253 ‘women are as rare as roses’: EH, The Great Australian Loneliness, Jarrolds, London, 1937, p. 208.
Epilogue
254 ‘Just under a tree’: Robert Hill Notes, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, UQFL18.
254 ‘Olivetti typewriter and a camera’: Letter, Charles Bateson to A&R, 1972, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
254 ‘Her executor, Charles Bateson’: Letter, Charles Bateson to A&R, 1972, A&R Files, State Library of NSW, ML MSS 3269.
255 ‘the great secret’: Email, John Miller to author, 23 November 2007.
255 ‘bit of a gambling problem’: Ibid.
255 ‘obsessive about the considerable Packer legacy’: Ibid.
255 ‘would waste all his earnings’: Ibid.
255 ‘Bob was always putting himself down’: Ibid.
255 ‘quite a fretful person’: Email, Louise Campbell to author, 9 May 2006.
Bibliography
PRIMARY SOURCES
Works by Ernestine Hill
Books
Australia: Land of Contrasts, edited by Sydney Ure Smith, John Sands Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1943.
Flying Doctor Calling: The Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1947.
Kabbarli: A personal memoir of Daisy Bates, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973.
My Love Must Wait: The story of Matthew Flinders, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1941.
Paul Johns’ Statement about Lasseter, as Told to Ernestine Hill, Scrivener Press, Adelaide, 1968.
Peter Pan Land and Other Poems, Hibernian Newspaper Co., Brisbane, 1916.
‘Story of the state’, in The Centenary Chronicle, Advertiser Newspapers Limited, Adelaide, 1936.
The Great Australian Loneliness, Jarrolds, London, 1937.
The Territory, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1951.
Water into Gold, Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1937.
Magazine and newspaper articles
1930
‘A Cossack “graveyard” ’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 October 1930.
‘Race carnival’, Sydney Sun (Sydney, NSW), 8 November 1930.
‘Scorching days in the nor’west’, The Mail (Adelaide, SA), 13 December 1930.
1931
‘The tragedy of Henry Lee’, Sunday Times (Perth, WA), 4 January 1931.
‘Savage Arnhemland’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 6 February 1931.
‘A swaggie in the Kimberley’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 13 June 1931.
‘Gordon and Kendall’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 7 October 1931.
1932
‘The woman of Ooldea’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 June 1932.
‘Where Australians bow to Allah’, Northern Standard (Darwin, NT), 7 October 1932.
‘Granites is gold city in embryo’, The Mail (Adelaide, SA), 15 October 1932.
‘Man with the green umbrella’, The Mail (Adelaide, SA), 22 October 1932.
‘Bank for Granites gold’, The News (Adelaide, SA), 31 October 1932.
‘The strange case of Mrs Widgety’, The Sun (Sydney, NSW), 18 December 1932.
1933
‘New township’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 4 February 1933.
‘Six days on a camel’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 February 1933.
‘Outback confidence men’, Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), 2 April 1933.
‘Darwin’, Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld), 18 April 1933.
‘Gallant voyagers of the north’, The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), 3 September 1933.
‘Disgrace’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 30 September 1933.
‘Library hidden in jungle’, The Chronicle (Adelaide, SA), 2 November 1933.
‘Trek from Granites begging lifts’, The News (Adelaide, SA), 22 November 1933.
‘Human moles of Cooper Pedy’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 16 December 1933.
1934
‘Thrilling voyage of Sea Scouts’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 12 March 1934.
‘Scouts on Silver Gull’, Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), 18 March 1934.
‘Glory of the gardens’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 31 May 1934.
‘Reading with fingers’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 8 June 1934.
‘The tragic Territory’, The Chronicle (Adelaide, SA), 21 June 1934.
‘Pies and pioneers’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 26 June 1934.
‘Woman who loves children: Mrs Lydia Longmore’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 5 July 1934.
‘Parakeet and lorikeet’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 23 July 1934.
‘Coffee as we ought to know it’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 17 November 1934.
‘Our cup of tea’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 22 November 1934.
1935
‘Big event for Alice Springs’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 24 January 1935.
‘Visit to Winnecke Goldfield’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 25 January 1935.
‘Need for hospital’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 26 January 1935.
‘Criminal sittings at Alice Springs’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 1 February 1935.
‘Alice Springs Court today’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 6 February 1935.
‘A town goes west’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 9 March 1935.
‘Shooting big game with a camera’, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 24 July 1935.
1948
‘After twenty years’, The Examiner (Launceston, Tas), 28 January 1948.
1950
‘A figure in history’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 16 September 1950.
1952
‘There is gold on the goldfields’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 27 September 1952.
‘A home for the old folks of gold’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 25 October 1952.
1953
‘Australian literature’, The West Australian (Perth, WA), 18 July 1953.
Archives and manuscripts
Private Archives, J S Battye Library of West Australian History, Perth
Papers of the Durack Family, MN 0071 Acc 7273A
Papers of William Robert Easton, MN 1826 Acc 5408A
Papers of John Keith Ewers, MN 1870 Acc 5340A, 5459A
Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library
Ernestine Hill Collection, UQFL18
Louise Campbell Collection, UQFL120
The Heritage Collections of the State Library of Queensland
Papers of Mrs W. Moore, John Oxley Library, M296
Papers of Timothy Keleher, OM 73-73
National Archives of Australia, Canberra
Papers of Prime Minister John Curtin, M1415, 431
Ernestine Hill, re exemption of son from military service, NAA: A472, W16168
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Papers of Henrietta Drake-Brockman, MS 1634
State Library of NSW
Correspondence between A&R/Beatrice Davis and writer Henrietta Drake-Brockman; and between A&R/Beatrice Davis and Ernestine Hill, A&R Files, ML MSS 3269
SECONDARY SOURCES
Books, essays and lectures
Bates, Daisy, The Passing of the Aborigines, John Murray, London, 1938.
Baume, F.E., Tragedy Track: The story of the Granites, F.C. Johnson, Sydney, 1933.
Berrington, Minnie, Stones of Fire, Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1958.
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Sources, written communication and interviews
Flight of Ducks, an online documentary developed by Simon Pockley in 1995 that revolves around the 1933 journal of Simon’s father, John Antill Pockley: www.duckdigital.net/FOD/
Libby Allen: Email correspondence with author as well as personal files on the Foster-Lynam Family.
Sally Hinks, daughter of Eleanor Smith: Email and telephone correspondence with author.
Email and letter correspondence between author and Louise Campbell.
Email correspondence between author and John Miller.
Newspaper, magazine and journal articles
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA)
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‘650 miles to receive honour’, 23 May 1934.
