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Great Australian Outback Police Stories

By: Bolinda Publishing
Narrated by: Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, Kate Hood
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I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game....

Boasting the biggest beats in the world - some as large as France - Australia's outback police have seen it all: natural disasters, incredible acts of selflessness, unspeakable crimes and daring rescues, just to name a few. And they've met some unforgettable characters along the way: from the murderer who stuffed his victims' bodies down wombat holes to the policeman who arrested his own wife to the prisoner who risked his life to rescue his own captor from certain death.

Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the length and breadth of the country to gather their tales of adventure and misadventure, drama and mayhem, and larrikinism and laughter, to create this memorable collection of real life stories about those on the frontline in the heart of Australia.

©2015 Bill Marsh (P)2015 Bolinda Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Crime
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Enjoyed stories. Easy listening. Good to hear aboutl life in outback small towns. ... ....

Outback Policing

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Thanks to the many people who shared their stories and to all involved in the compilation. This is a great way to learn about our history and places around the country.

wonderful history

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Enjoyed the stories of truth of the past struggle .
Grateful for the effort of stories being shared .

Very interesting insight

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Great narrator voice, Bill, for these stories of our past and of the police who had to be jack-of-all-trades in the vast outback of our country. I enjoyed the history of places like Bourke.
I hope poor dead Grandma’s body was eventually found!

Great Yarns

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Really enjoyed the stories. Found the inflection of the narrators hard at time and the pronunciation of local names could have been better especially from Kate

Good stories

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A really easy to listen to story book of wonderful stories of the outback in the vast Australian continent. Highly recommended.

Fantastic!

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A wonderful collection of stories, giving insight into the ways policing has changed over the decades, and the ways it's still the same, for better or worse, but mostly for better

A corker of a read

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most of the story's were really good to listen to, but the way they were told and the way the book it set out is really strange. lost interest after a while cause I couldn't keep up with what was a new story.

ok

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This was a refreshing read about life in Outback Australia
before the ugliness of cultural ignorance, population growth and
racism arrived.
Thoroughly enjoyable listen, thank you Bill and Kate :-)

Australian outback policing when Aborigines were treated respectfully

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In the audio recording it isn't very clear when the stories change to having been a different police person's story. There are also stories from members of the public that just include a police officer as part of the tale.

Stories from more than one person

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