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My Outback Life

Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border.

Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm friends, created the Heartbreak Ball and started riding campdraft in rodeos all over the Territory, becoming one of the NT’s top riders.

In the midst of this busy life she raised three children and saw them through challenges; she dealt with snakes in her washing basket; she kept in touch with her large, sprawling Tapp family, and she fell deeply in love with the Gulf Country.

Filled with the warmth and humour readers will remember from A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD, this next chapter in Toni’s life is both an adventure and a heartwarming memoir, and will introduce readers to a part of Australia few have experienced.

MY OUTBACK LIFE

Filled with the warmth and humour readers will remember from A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD, this next chapter in the life of Toni Tapp Coutts is both an adventure and a heartwarming memoir, and will introduce readers to a part of Australia few have experienced...

My Outback Life
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A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD

The land where I grew up is vast and flat. When I first came to Killarney Station, there was barely a tree to be seen, and that sparse vista stretched all the way to the horizon, 2819 square kilometres, about as untamed as you’d imagine...

A Sunburnt Childhood
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CATTLE KING

“The Cattle King is dead.”

These were the headlines splashed across Northern Territory newspapers on the 23rd May 1992 announcing the death of legendary cattleman Bill Tapp...

Cattle King

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