Alice Bilari Smith

Released in a stunning new edition, this First Nations classic details the strength and resilience of women (particularly First Nations women) in regional Australia. This groundbreaking publication brings to light the hidden experience of First Nations women in regional and remote Australia. Now available as a stunning new Indigenous Classic, Alice Bilari Smith's extraordinary journey embodies the strength and spirit...

Alice Bilari Smith lived in the Pilbara, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. Narrowly avoiding removal from her family by 'the Welfare', life on the stations taught her to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood, and milk cows. As a young married woman, she added mustering, dingo scalping, shearers' assistant,...