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Gare was quoted by
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Gare was a talented artist and held five exhibitions in Perth. She won prizes in the
Canning Art Awards for 1971, 1972, 1976 and 1978. She donated most of the proceeds from her art to charities, including Amnesty International, WA AIDS Council, the local dogs' home and a woman lawyer assisting
230:. Nene came to know several Aboriginal families living in a camp known as the Snake Pit, a collection of tin and hessian shacks with dirt floors and no running water or electricity, just outside Geraldton, with these friendships later inspiring
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Gare later said that she was influenced by the relative penury of her own parents in comparison to her extended family of wealthier aunts and uncles. Her books "A House with
Verandahs" and "Kent Town" draw on this period. Gare told editor
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In 1952-54, Frank was appointed
District Officer with the Native Welfare Department in Carnarvon and was transferred to the position of District Officer for the Murchison Region, with the family based in
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distrust most fiction. I'd never never contrive to make a plot. Things must happen, as I think they do. No working up to a climax - possibly unfortunately for my publishers".
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16:Author of 'The Fringe Dwellers' (1919–1994)
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489:Green Gold
362:An Odd Job
322:Pigging It
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183:(b 1952).
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