Cleared out: first contact in the Western Desert
Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson & Yuwali
Aboriginal Studies Press

The extraordinary story of Australia's Blue Streak rocket tests of the early 1960s and their impact on a group of remote Aboriginal women and children. A co-production between authors Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson, Yuwali and several Martu communities of north-western Western Australia.

This book went on to inspire the film Contact!, which premiered at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival.

Winner of the 2006 Western Australian Premier's History Award.

Our role: structural edit, copy edit, proofread, design, typeset and project manage.

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