We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn and the ties that bind

and the ties that bind in local football

Past and present become one

Out now and in stock

author and footballer

On her sixteenth birthday

We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn and the ties that bindWe of the Never Never is a snapshot of Australian history, from a time when cattle stations were as big as countries, when remote living meant weeks of travel from the big smoke, and news of the outside world came with the mail deliveries once a month. In 1902, Jeannie Gunn accompanied her husband, Aeneas Gunn, to his Roper River cattle station. She stayed only a year, but the experience changed her so profoundly that on her return she sat down to