Book review: Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages, by Corinne Manning (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008, pp. 262, $AU39.95, includes DVD)

J. Gothard

doi:10.2104/ha090088

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Book review: Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages, by Corinne Manning (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008, pp. 262, $AU39.95, includes DVD)

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Book review: Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages, by Corinne Manning (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008, pp. 262, $AU39.95, includes DVD)

J. Gothard

History Australia, Vol.6(3), pp.88.1-88.3

2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2104/ha090088

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Everybody who has a connection with disability in Australia will recall the Kew Cottages fire of April 1996, an event whose horror was almost eclipsed by the subsequent coronial acknowledgement that the tragedy had been waiting to happen, with a negligent state blamed as the key contributor...

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Title: Book review: Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages, by Corinne Manning (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008, pp. 262, $AU39.95, includes DVD)
Authors/Creators: J. Gothard (Author/Creator)
Publication Details: History Australia, Vol.6(3), pp.88.1-88.3
Publisher: Australian History Association
Identifiers: 991005544353407891
Murdoch Affiliation: School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Publisher URL: http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/ha090088

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