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Alfred Canning’s 1,850-kilometre stock route became the point at which white history intersected and clashed with the Indigenous Dreaming
Everyone’s talking about Canning.
It’s a federal electorate in Western Australia that will host a byelection in two weeks. Apparently Canning could change political history.
Related: Canning byelection: Labor pins hopes on Matt Keogh, a local hero of the deepest red
Others were chained and fed salt so that maddening thirst would force them to lead Canning and his men to water.
We went there lately and saw there was hardly any water. Only a little, enough for birds to drink. Before it was big.
Related: Myall Creek: here, in 1838, a crime that would not be forgotten took place
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