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form y separately published work icon The Battlers series - publisher   film/TV  
Adaptation of The Battlers Kylie Tennant , 1941 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The Battlers
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The 'battlers' are the itinerants left living a hand-to-mouth existence on the back roads of rural Australia after the Great Depression. The Battlers is also the love story of Snow and Dancy, which becomes a celebration of the human spirit against a backdrop of hardship and survival.

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Sweet Shuts Up and Keeps His Shirt On Tom Gilling , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 July vol. 116 no. 5929 1994; (p. 84)

— Review of The Battlers Peter Yeldham , 1994 series - publisher film/TV
Sweet Shuts Up and Keeps His Shirt On Tom Gilling , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 July vol. 116 no. 5929 1994; (p. 84)

— Review of The Battlers Peter Yeldham , 1994 series - publisher film/TV
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