Robert McLean's 'The Town Like No Other' Book Launch

Join us for the Broken Hill launch of The Town Like No Other by Robert McLean.

In The Town Like No Other, Robert McLean weaves memoir with social and economic history to tell the story of Broken Hill during its ‘magic years’, 1950–1970.

Robert paints a portrait of a town that punched above its weight: a world-class mining centre that delivered record incomes and productivity, and a tightly knit community where unions, managers and miners forged pragmatic partnerships. Alongside this, artists, migrants, educators and conservationists shaped a fiercely local yet nationally influential cultural identity.

Honest and nuanced, the book holds both civic pride and opportunity, and the town’s contradictions: married women excluded from work, Indigenous people pushed to the margins, and families grieving lives lost underground. Through lived experience and careful research, McLean captures Broken Hill at its zenith: resilient, inventive and deeply human, a town unlike any other in Australia’s history.

Robert is being interviewed by ABC Broken Hill radio host, Andrew Schmidt, and will discuss his insights into life in Broken Hill during this formative period. Robert will also be available for book signings afterwards.

The Town Like No Other is proudly published by Bakers Lane Books.

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