Word: gilgandra
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...does a whitefella end up inspiring an Aboriginal social movement? Born in Gilgandra, in central N.S.W., Estens can trace his bloodlines back several centuries to both the Protestant Huguenots and the father of English empiricism, John Locke. Estens' Dreaming is the Enlightenment and the rich earth of the Moree plains - liberty and equality, with a dash of Aussie bush can-do and toil. He started the AES with the idea of providing skilled labor for the cotton industry; that modest venture seemed to lift the town and as the institutions surrounding job placement changed under the Howard government, the innovator...
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