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SCENARIO: YOU ARE A STUDENT WHO LIVES IN THE AUSTRALIAN INLAND AND HAVE BEEN ASKED TO DEVELOP A PIECE FOR THE INLANDER MAGAZINE. Your job is to help students who live in the city understand what life in the outback is like. You could:1. Describe a typical day living in the outback 2. Create an…

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FLYNN WROTE A MESSAGE IN THE INLANDER MAGAZINE TO CHILDREN WHO LIVED IN THE OUTBACK: “If any of you boys and girls who read this live in the bush, I want you to do something for me. I want you to write to me of the bush things, like wild dogs, and kangaroos, and crocodiles,…

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HE WAS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN LIVING IN THE OUTBACK AND HOW DIFFICULT THEIR LIVES COULD BE From your visit to the museum, make a list of some of the hardships experienced by children who live in the outback both in the past and now: Then Now