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1180:Must Australia Fight?
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890:Fortunes in Minerals
874:Prospecting for Gold
67:Cornstalk Publishing
1329:The Vanished People
1259:Australian Guerilla
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41:Ion Idriess
1362:Categories
1035:Man Tracks
746:ABC Weekly
344:"Marooned"
255:References
131:Background
1172:Political
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228:Australia
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114:opium
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