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Great Australian Bush Funeral Stories

Author: Bill 'Swampy' Marsh and Jacqui Katona  

Yarns and memories that capture the experience of saying goodbye in the Australian bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.

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Yarns and memories that capture the experience of saying goodbye in the Australian bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.

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Description

Death doesn’t mean the end of memorable stories from the bush. In fact, often it’s just the beginning.We’re nearing the end of the service and so I step closer in to do the last ‘ashes to ashes and dust to dust’ bit. Just as I get to the edge of the grave, the soil gives away and in I go. Well, they reckon I was like a kangaroo. I hardly missed a beat. I went down into the grave like that, hit the coffin and I bounded back out in one big leap. And I’m now standing back up beside the grave, trying not to shake, while I continue with the service: ‘Ashes to ashes, dust to dust’.These tales from police officers, nurses, funeral directors, priests, gravediggers and those left behind, show that bush ingenuity comes to the fore when coping with corpses that won’t cooperate or can’t be found, bodies that don’t stay buried, and weather and wildlife trying to sabotage the best-planned funerals. This memorable and eye-opening collection of real-life accounts of passing away and saying goodbye in the Australian bush is by turns, poignant, bizarre, heartbreaking and hilarious.

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Critic Reviews

'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn.' -- The Gold Coast Bulletin

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About the Author

Bill is an award-winning writer/performer of stories, songs and plays. He’s a teacher and mentor through TAFE SA and runs workshops in schools and communities. Bill is an award-winning writer/performer of stories, songs and plays. He’s a teacher and mentor through TAFE SA and runs workshops in schools and communities. Jacqui Katona, a Djok woman, from the Kakadu area of the Northern Territory is an Aboriginal advocate. She has worked for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Stolen Generations Northern Territory and assisted her family to prevent uranium mining at Jabiluka, adjacent to Kakadu National Park. With Yvonne Margarula, of the Mirrar, she shares the Goldman Environmental Prize for Island Nations 1999. She is currently completing her graduate law degree at the University of Melbourne.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bolinda Publishing | ABC/ Bolinda Audio
Published
28th November 2018
ISBN
9781489466136

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