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	Green Left - A silent contradiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Durack owned hotels, a butchery and town properties and was doing a fast trade selling off land blocks to incoming settlers.
		And the Duracks -- when it becomes their turn to lord it over the land -- are no different.
		For as soon as the Duracks take land which was not theirs -- despite a government title to the contrary -- they became no better than the English landlords or the squattocracy which had previously made their lives so wretched.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1998/313/21545 (643 words)

	Untitled Document
		Durack School is in the suburb of Durack - also known as Fairway Waters - and is subject to zoning regulations.
		The Durack School community strives at all times to show the dignity and determination that was shown in Australian history by pioneers such as the Durack family.
		Durack School aims to support our students in their pursuit of learning, and to encourage them to conduct themselves with dignity and determination at all times.
	www.schools.nt.edu.au /durack/schoolhistory.htm (474 words)

	Span number 36 Postcolonial Fictions: Giblett
		Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles is a classic of Western Australian settler literature.1 First published in 1959, it is also a best seller having gone through eighteen printings to 1991.
		Durack's taxonomy of birds is based on both aesthetic and culinary criteria with predatory bushbirds being sadistic and inedible, wheeling birds producing the sublime, and "game" being edible.
		Durack writes how her grandfather read about the Kimberley and thought that this was "the country he most desired - a land of splendid rivers, fine pastures and reliable rainfall" (207) and she later quotes with approval how her great-uncle found "the country everything that could be desired, suitable for all kinds of stock" (226).
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Giblett2.html (5859 words)

	Brisbane Suburb: Durack - History of Durack - ourbrisbane.com
		Durack's history has been compiled by local historian, Mary Howell, as a part of the BRISbites community history project.
		Durack was originally part of Inala, and was known as Oxley South.
		Michael's brother, 'Patsy' Durack, was involved in the famous Durack cattle drives from Goulburn to the gulf country and the Kimberleys during the 1880s.
	www.ourbrisbane.com /living/suburbs/durack/history (826 words)

	Durack, Mary - Australian Women Biographical entry
		Dame Mary Durack is remembered as being the author of publications that includes Kings in Grass Castles, To Ride a Fine Horse, Sons in the Saddle and Swan River Saga: Life of Early Pioneer Eliza Shaw.
		Born in Adelaide South Australia, the daughter of Michael Patrick and Bessie Ida Muriel (née Johnstone) Durack Mary's childhood was spent on the Argyle and Ivanhoe stations in the West Australian East Kimberley area.
		Dame Mary Durack was a director and patron of the Stockmans' Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre, and a former executive member of the Aboriginal Cultural Foundation.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0027b.htm (585 words)

	Living Memory: The killing of Uncle Jeremiah
		The 1901 murder of cattle king Jeremiah Durack at his isolated Kimberley homestead in northern Western Australia was at the centre of an essay by his niece Mary Durack in The Bulletin in 1982.
		Durack set the scene for her story with a forensic dissection of the state of outback race relations a century ago.
		Durack ends her piece by noting a racist backlash in the north, but also observed that despite the occasional killing of a white, "many white men owed their lives to the sometimes unmerited loyalty of their Aboriginal helpers".
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=258228 (605 words)

	Mary Durack Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Mary Durack is remembered as one of Australia's most versatile writers and also as one of the best loved and most highly honored.
		Durack was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 20 February 1913, the second child and eldest daughter of Michael Patrick Durack and Bessie Ida Muriel Johnstone Durack.
		Bessie Durack was a third-generation South Australian and the youngest of seven children in the respectable and affluent Anglican Johnstone family.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mary-durack-dlb (176 words)

	Lake Argyle Village - Western Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		Durack (1834-1898) was born in County Clare, Ireland, emigrated to New South Wales in 1853, made his fortune on the Ovens River diggings in Victoria and in 1868 established a property on a tributary of Coopers Creek in western Queensland.
		Michael's report was favourable and Durack organised the droving of 7250 breeding cattle and 200 horses to the region.
		In the gardens are the graves of Vera Durack who died in 1898 at the age of one, Annie Durack who died in 1898 aged 14 and J. Durack who died in 1901 aged 48 and two of the station hands.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Western-Australia/Lake-Argyle-Village/2005/02/17/1108500208248.html (865 words)

	Durack, Patrick (1834 - 1898) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		DURACK, PATRICK (1834-1898), pastoral pioneer, was born in March 1834 at Scarriff, County Clare, Ireland, the eldest son of eight children of Michael Durack and his wife Bridget, née Dillon.
		The Duracks were struggling tenant farmers who survived the famine of the 1840s and followed another branch of the family to New South Wales in 1853; they arrived in the Harriet in May. Within two months of reaching the Goulburn district Michael Durack was accidentally killed.
		Despite this setback the Duracks and Costellos returned to Queensland and in 1868 established Thylungra and Kyabra stations on a tributary of Cooper's Creek.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A040117b.htm (748 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Mary Durack was born in 1913 and her sister Elizabeth in 1915, they were the grandaughters of the famous pioneer and explorer, Patsy Durack and spent their early years living on cattle stations in North Western Australia.
		Mary was the writer and Elizabeth the artist and together they produced some of Australia's most memorable works of the 40's, 50's and 60's.
		Mary's writing career began at an early age, when some of her childhood verses were published by her parents in a book entitled, Little Poems of Sunshine in 1923.
	users.bigpond.net.au /aussieauthors/Durack.htm (699 words)

	About Us
		Her cousin, Dame Mary Durack's novel, Kings Of Grass Castles, is still celebrated as the seminal Australian text on the country's early pastoral pioneers.
		And the paintings of her other cousin, Elizabeth Durack are universally recognized in the international art world as being among the first to have incorporated indigenous themes - long before the Aboriginal art boom of the 1970s.
		In the daily business of running cattle stations, the Durack family were among the first to have sustained contact with the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley - and unique in the level of respect with which they treated them.
	www.artaborigene.fr /aboutus_eng.html (523 words)

	The House System
		Mary Durack (nee Costello) married Patrick Durack in 1862.
		Mary Durack, her grand-daughter, gives an insight into her story in Kings in Grass Castles.
		Mary Gilmore (nee Cameron), born 1865, was in her time a teacher, feminist, social reformer and writer.
	www.somerville.qld.edu.au /content?id=93 (978 words)

	Span number 36 Postcolonial Fictions: MacGregor
		Durack's forward translates Johnson into text, converts him into language so that he may be consumed by the reader.
		Durack's discourse perpetuates the image of the "savage" Aboriginal: Johnson's intellect is "natural," he has tried to remove himself from the "shadow" of his native dilemma (Durack 7), he has a "proud stance," and a "hunger for knowledge" (Durack 10).
		Durack comments that the book is "important, both for its literary quality and as the first attempt by someone of Aboriginal blood to express himself in this form" (Durack 18).
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/MacGregor.html (5094 words)

	Media Releases
		The City of Armadale is calling budding writers to put pens to paper for the 28th annual Mary Durack Award for Young Writers.
		Mary Durack was part of a pioneering pastoralist family in the Kimberley.
		Entries in the Mary Durack Award for Young Writers should be no longer than 1500 words and must be in prose form, rather than poetry.
	www.armadale.wa.gov.au /templates/template9/ReleaseDetail.asp?MediaID=1294&ReleaseID=85 (353 words)

	Kings In Grass Castles
		Based on the memoir/biography by Mary Durack, it charts the struggle of her family patriarch (Patsy Durack) to establish his clan as a free, independent, and wealthy land holders.
		Plot Summary: In the late 1840s, the Duracks were dirt poor tenant farmers in Galway, Ireland suffering under British landlords and the potato famine.
		In Thylungard, Queensland, Patsy (Patrick) Durack conquers/appropriates the land (symbolized by the driving the cattle into a water hole where the aboriginals were fishing for their food).
	www.wtamu.edu /~dwerden/RanchingLiterature/Kings_In_Grass_Castles.html (477 words)

	Mary Durack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Mary Durack was born in Adelaide on 20
		Her most well known book is “Kings in Grass Castles”, in which she traces her grandfather’s epic journey across the continent to WA, where he established pastoral stations in the 1890.
		of December 1977, Mary was awarded The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander for her service to literature.
	www.mundaring.wa.gov.au /Libraries/Rate_Payers/mary_durack_biog.htm (113 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Dame Mary Durack, DBE (February 20, 1913 – December 16, 1994) was an Australian author and historian.
		Durack was appointed an Dame Commander of the British Empire, for her services to literature on December 31 1977.
		Her sister was artist and writer Elizabeth Durack.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Mary_Durack (152 words)

	Welcome to Durack Manufacturing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In 1946, Martin and Mary McCans started their own company screen printing tee shirts, uniforms and pennants in Philadelphia.
		Durack's first location was in a basement on 55th Street.
		A few years later, Durack moved to 13th and Callowhill St. where the company blossomed into a successful family-owned business.
	www.durackathletic.com (162 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Mudrooroo
		As well as being a member of Western Australia’s most influential pastoralist family, Durack was also an Australian novelist and poet who often cared for young men like Mudrooroo, newly released from gaol.
		Mudrooroo’s interest in writing was first stimulated in the Durack home, a welcoming place that saw the constant comings and goings of artists of all description.
		But he never lost touch with Mary Durack and it was with her assistance that his first, and perhaps best known novel, Wild Cat Falling was published in 1965.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3241 (710 words)

	Welcome to InterSector - Communicating with the Public Sector
		In recognition of her service to art and literature, Elizabeth Durack was awarded the OBE in 1966, the CMG in 1982 and in the 1990s an Hon.
		A large collection of Durack family archives was deposited in the Battye Library over many years by Mary Durack as she researched and wrote her sequence of Durack family histories, beginning with Kings in Grass Castles first published in 1959.
		In addition to the artworks, Elizabeth Durack’s family have deposited a large and important collection of her personal letters, diaries and other documents.
	www.dpc.wa.gov.au /psmd/intersector/2005/feb05/current_issue/durack.htm (703 words)

	ABC Shop - Australian Classics Boxed Set
		These three stories are true accounts of three extraordinary Australians: AB Facey, Patsy Durack and Sidney Kidman, who lived through Depression, established a pastoral dynasty and cattle empires.
		Their stories tell about a time in Australia that has all but disappeared but the strength of character, determination and spirit has become a core component of the Australian character which still appeals to listeners today.
		Mary Durack grew up on stations in Western Australia's East Kimberly area.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=236890 (209 words)

	Hindsight - 16/11/2003: Mary Durack - Historian and Novelist
		Hindsight - 16/11/2003: Mary Durack - Historian and Novelist
		She also wrote about her father, politician Michael Durack in "Sons in the Saddle" as well as many novels, poems and articles.
		We hear from her sister, artist Elizabeth Durack, critic and scholar Veronica Brady and Historian Geoffrey Bolton as well as Mary Durack herself.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/history/hindsight/stories/s956362.htm (126 words)

	Stephen Dillane in Kings in Grass Castles
		Based on Dame Mary Durack's classic book about the real adventures of her family, this is an inspirational saga spanning generations of struggle, romance and loyalty, starring
		The Duracks were poor tenant farmers in Galway, squeezed out by English overlords and the 1840s potato famine.
		From dirt-poor, starving farmers in Ireland and indentured servitude in Australia, the Duracks, led by Patsy, the driven older brother, become owners of gold mines and of a cattle empire that would eventually encompass millions of western Australia acres.
	fp.enter.net /~purrfect/kings.htm (630 words)

	Burswood Park Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The subject matter and inspiration for this sculpture is Dame Mary Durack, renowned Australian author, engaged in a dialogue with her 'young self' as a child.
		The two 'Mary's' share a sense of purpose; their attention is rivetted to each other, and on the manuscript they hold 'Swan River Saga'.
		The sculpture group expresses the theme of the family as a happy group engaged in a traditional pastime, which can be enjoyed by children of all ages.
	www.burswoodpark.wa.gov.au /html/4her_02.htm (234 words)

	Kings In Grass Castles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The miniseries is based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Dame Mary Durack.
		The story follows three generations of Duracks, who flee Ireland in search of a better life in Australia.
		After initial hardship, the Durack family become the cattle kings of Queensland, but later lose their wealth when the markets crash.
	www.geocities.com /myandettastn/kings.html (89 words)

	Ireland Mid-West Online - Clare and Galway names - Durack
		Only records in Australia that I can find is that a Laurence Durack was granted a ticket of leave in 1843 and that a Laurence Durack arrived in NSW in ship HIVE in 1835.
		Ann Durack is my ancestor, arrived Australia in 1854, with her family.
		Ann/Anne Durack (1839-1882) arrived in Geelong Victoria, Australia with her brother Michael Durack in November of 1857.
	www.irelandmidwest.com /geneaology/durack.html (578 words)

	Mary Durack Award Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Mary Durack Award for Young Writers was originated by the libraries in the then Shires of Kalamunda, Mundaring, Swan and the Town of Armadale in 1979.The Award began as a community arts project to encourage young writers and to promote the public library service.
		The Award is open to all children who either reside or attend school in the Shires of Kalamunda and Mundaring and the Cities of Swan and Armadale.
		The first place winner in each category will also have their names engraved on a perpetual Mary Durack shield, which will then be displayed in their local library.
	www.mundaring.wa.gov.au /Libraries/Rate_Payers/mary-durack-award-information.htm (353 words)

	Kimberley Tourism, Kimberley Vacations In Australia, Kimberly Tours To Australia.
		With a population of 5,000 it is one of the youngest towns in WA and has a well-developed infrastructure.
		Situated on land that was once part of Ivanhoe Station, the pastoral history of the area is well documented in books by Dame Mary Durack.
		For many Kununurra is a transfer point, however if time permits there are lake and river cruises, scenic flights, Argyle mine tours and visits to the Durack homestead, now a museum.
	www.australianportfolio.com /short-journeys/kimberley-top-end/kimberly-more.htm (810 words)

	1998winter
		This yearís Mary Durack Memorial lecture was by writer and broadcaster Clare Dunne on the subject of "Mother Ireland Mother Earth" where she spoke of the land as a manifestation of the feminine which exists in all our natures.
		In our Letters to the Editor section we publish a letter from William Durack, brother of Mary Durack, author of the classic Australian story "Kings in Grass Castles" in which he gives his views about the accuracy of the Channel Seven program based on the novel.
		Mary Hicks describes the meeting on 12 April 1998 and we publish a copy of the 1996 WB Yeats Poetry Prize by Margaret Samuels.
	www.multiline.com.au /~aiha/1998winter.htm (748 words)

	AustLit Agent
		Mary Durack was educated at Loreto Convent in Perth, Western Australia after spending her early childhood on the Durack family properties in the Kimberley region.
		She returned to the Argyle and Ivanhoe stations in the Kimberleys during the 1930s' Depression and in 1935, with her sister Elizabeth Durack (q.v.), they published All-About: The Story of a Black Community on Argyle Station, Kimberley.
		Soon after, Mary Durack also began writing a newspaper column for The West Australian under the pseud....
	www.austlit.edu.au /run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A(@t (162 words)

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