Title: Knockabout girl /
Authors: Newling, Pip 1967-
Publisher: Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Publishers Australia,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Newling, Pip; Bartenders Australia Halls Creek (W.A.) Biography.
Abstract: When 23 year old Pip Newling arrived in the remote West Australian town of Halls Creek, the locals gave her 24 hours - tops - before she'd be back on the bus to Sydney.
Contents: HALLS CREEK: Welcome -- First impressions #1 -- Meant to be broken -- The start of something -- The sentimental bloke -- Fighting times -- Keeping them keen -- Jean-Paul de Halls Creek -- Two-fisted lover -- Moving targets -- Nothing compares to you -- Answering prayers -- Confession -- Lance and the turkey shoot -- Warning signs -- Nothing compares -- An example -- Gadiya girl -- Language -- Running amok -- White justice -- Alice to Kununurra -- Sung -- Night basketball -- Signs of life -- Paybacks are bitches -- Desert driving -- Brawl -- Another world -- Three-Crowned Jack -- MATARANKA: Hot and humid -- First nights -- First impressions # 2 -- Grasping desire -- 680 km north-east -- Sunny days and the kid -- Pumping petrol -- The girl alone -- Nigger -- Three dog night -- Troppo -- Affirs -- Protection -- Friends -- Peeping Tom -- Sundancing Kid -- Gun dogs -- Forecast rain -- THE RETURN: Distance -- To start with -- Going back -- Same, same, but different -- Absent ghosts -- Hell's Crack -- 'The Resort' -- 'Alice Springs 1554 km' -- South in the Noerthern Territory -- History repeats -- Old friends -- New ownership -- The show -- Leaving -- Drawing lines in the sand.