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If Blood Should Stain the Wattle

Jackie FrenchSeries: Matilda Saga
5
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Pages
544
Year
2016
Language
English

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It's 1972, and across Australia the catchcry is 'It's time'.

Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for a new, idealistic Labor government.

In Gibber's Creek, it's time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. And, for Scarlett O'Hara, it's time to dream that one day she becomes a doctor, despite being in a wheelchair. It's also time for matriarch Matilda Thompson to reflect on the life that took her from the slums of Grinder's Alley to the events that began a nation at a billabong in 1894.

The 1970s was a time of extraordinary ideals of a better world, but as the ideals drifted from disaster to the Dismissal there were deep conflicts about what that better world might be.

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