Objects of Substance- The 1966 Central Australia Tour

1966 Menu for the final four days of the trip.

On their way through Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia, the 1966 Centralians students saw Aboriginal rock art, visited mines, climbed Uluru, went boating down Katherine Gorge, crossed deserts, met drovers, and arrived at Port Augusta, having “crossed Australia from North to South”. They journeyed back up north via Canberra and Sydney and home to Brisbane three weeks later. This was the time well before mobile phones. Contact was much more difficult. Public telephones were few and far between and girls received handwritten letters from home, sent to different towns and collected on the way. In Mount Isa, Lorraine Dunstan “set the record by receiving six letters”.