Performing Place Practising Memories

<ul> <li> First published ethnography from this region of tropical Northern Australia in which is located the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area</li> <li> The only study focusing on relationships between indigenous Australians and the wave of counter-culture people who moved into rural communities during the 1970s and 1980s</li> <li> One of the very few studies which have explored the settlement practices of the counter-culture settlers or hippies.</li> <li> Unique for its examination of the social conflicts generated by the transformation of a tourist town in the Wet Tropics of Australia </li></ul>