Thea Hayes
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A nostolgic memoir of an extraordinary woman
Thea Hayes left her Sydney city life behind in 1959 when she took her first job as a newly qualified nurse at Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. Little did Thea know that she was about to find herself living among a large aboriginal community on a vast station. This is the inspiring story of how she took on the job, met the love of her life, and became part of the historical Wave Hill Station...
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Thea Hayes spent twenty years living and working on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. She arrived as a twenty-two-year-old nurse from Sydney, but when she left in 1979 she was married with four children and eager for her next adventure.
And what twists and turns her new life in rural Queensland had in store. From a stint running a corner shop in the small town of Toogoolawah to dairy and cattle farming and working as a nurse in hospitals...