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Article: The Gayndah Communes.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 1999
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Bill Metcalf. The Gayndah Communes. Rockhampton (Queensland, Australia): Central Queensland UP, 1998. xiii + 218 pp. $25.95.
AS AUSTRALIA TRANSFORMS ITSELF from a forlorn continent into a young Pacific empire, its achievement in the arts and sciences increasingly brings the country to the attention of the world. The present book is part of such a general trend, and enriches our view of history and human life in general. It is based on extensive archival research and interviews of the descendants of three rural communes of the 1890s, and should be seen as part of a larger saga of cooperative lifestyles in Australia which Dr. Bill Metcalf has endeavoured to ...