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Adventures of a female opal miner, as seen in "The Age"
by Susan Cooper
August 02, 2017
Hunting for colour: Adventures of a female opal miner by Jason Bainbridge If Sue Cooper has a problem with her telephone reception, it is a 10-hour round trip for a Telstra Remote-Area Service technician in a four-wheel drive to fix it. If she ne...
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