In 1895 they discovered gold in the Australian desert, and up sprang Kalgoorlie, the town with a pub on every corner. Once the “place of silky pears”, koolgooluh, this was home to the Wangkatja people, but their ancestral ceremonial and hunting grounds soon vanished in a mine, a city, alien people, and thousands of liters More

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