Outlaw: The Story of Joe Flick

When anthropologist Robert Morris arrives at the old Doomadgee Mission at Bayley Point near Burketown in 1934 hes intent on learning local languages and customs. One very old woman living there he discovers was originally from outback New South Wales and is something of an outcast amongst the Waanyi and Gangalidda locals.On delving deeper Morris discovers that the old woman was the wife of a white stockman for more than thirty years in the frontier days and claims to be the mother of one of the norths most notorious outlaws. Determined to record the facts of her sons crimes from her perspective he sits with her each afternoon.This is the story she told ...