When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind

From choirboy to cowboy . . . In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packe

“False, they were all of them false, the stories; as false as the stories of fairies dancing in moonlight glades on Midsummer Night.” But they served a purp

Jackaroo; n. a male station hand. That is according to the "Australian Slang Dictionary' whereas the Macquarie Dictionary gives a more realistic version. " A ja

The ten pound pom' was the description of those people who emigrated to Australia from Britain between 1945 to 1972. Government Assisted Passage Scheme devised