The Sausage Tree

  Winner of the 1993 David Unaipon Award

  Fiction

  First published 1995 by University of Queensland Press

  PO Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia

  www.uqp.com.au

  © Rosalie Medcraft & Valda Gee, 1995

  This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher.

  Typeset by University of Queensland Press

  Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group

  Publication of this title was assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

  The David Unaipon Award receives financial assistance from the Queensland Government through the Minister for the Arts

  Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  National Library of Australia

  Medcraft, Rosalie, 1933–.

  The sausage tree.

  1. Johnson family. 2. Aborigines, Australian – Tasmania – History. 3. Aborigines, Australian – Tasmania – Social conditions. 4. Aborigines, Australian – Tasmania – Biography. 5. Tasmania – Social life and customs – 20th century. I. Gee, Valda, 1930–. II. Titles. (Series: UQP black Australian writers).

  994.60049915

  ISBN 9780702227837 (pbk)

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  9780702250262 (epub)

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