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283:"Based on a song of the same name and set in the 1920s, The Drover's Boy recalls the time when it was illegal for Caucasians and Aborigines to marry, and the death of an Aborigine went unnoticed by the white community. This popular and moving Australian folk song comes from a true story about a Caucasian drover (the Australian name for a cowboy or sheep herder) who is forced to pass off his Aboriginal wife as his "drover's boy". Ted Egan wrote this song as a tribute to the Aboriginal stockwomen, in the hope that one day their enormous contribution to the Australian pastoral industry might be recognized and honored. Ages 11+." 25: 488:
and commissioned Cinevest Limited to find potential backers. A prospectus was issued in 1995 The funds raised by Cinevest and Egan personally, after pre-production costs were sufficient to capture extensive footage of outback cattle movements on high quality film, but insufficient to guarantee
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song was released. The short-film, with a run time of 11 minutes, was directed by Margaret McHugh and produced by Lyn Norfor and has been screened at numerous film festivals.
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The Drover's Boy, Athenaeum Theatre Two, Melbourne, VIC, 29 July 1998 [Event description]
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Ted Egan's the drover's boy : an Australian feature film. Prospectus
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Marchant, Bob; Evans, Nerys; Egan, Ted, 1932-. Drover's boy (1995),
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completion of the full-length movie, so the project was abandoned.
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It has also inspired a series of paintings and a stage production:
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