Excerpt two from Barefoot in the Bindis by Angela Wales

Updated June 14 2019 - 4:36pm, first published June 13 2019 - 10:00am
THE GIRLS VISIT THE BIG SMOKE: Katrina and Angela Wales on an excursion to the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney circa 1957. Photo: Courtesy of Angela Wales author of Barefoot in the Bindis (Affirm Press, $29.99), out now.
THE GIRLS VISIT THE BIG SMOKE: Katrina and Angela Wales on an excursion to the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney circa 1957. Photo: Courtesy of Angela Wales author of Barefoot in the Bindis (Affirm Press, $29.99), out now.

In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm in Walcha.

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