Working Holiday in Rural Australia, 1947-48

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

Between July 1947 and February 1948, Harris made a solo trip through outback Australia, during which time he kept notes in diary form of his impressions and activities. He worked in various jobs including as a cook on a mustering camp at Banka, N.T., as a station hand at Dalmally, Qld, as a labourer in a Mackay sugar mill and drove tractors and assisted as a harvest hand on a wheat farm at Watchupgai in the Mallee district of Victoria.

A short sequence of articles and correspondence relating to his Australian experiences, principally written on return to England, is contained in Series 6. Other photographs documenting Harris' travels in Australia are filed in Series 24.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In December 1994 the National Library of Australia purchased the papers of Stewart Harris, for more than twenty years Foreign Correspondent in Australia for The Times newspaper.

Names:

Stewart Harris

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