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The Opera House of the West

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2009

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Muir, Cameron

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ANU ePress

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I turn off the Mitchell Highway outside the New South Wales town of Wellington and drive east into undulating pastoral lands. From here it is about 30 kilometres to the Burrendong Dam, an earth-filled structure across the Macquarie River that was once dubbed ‘The Opera House of the West’.

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Australian Humanities Review 47 (2009): 55-65

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http://hdl.handle.net/10440/1070

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ANU Press (1965-Present)

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Australian Humanities Review

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Open Access

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10.22459/AHR.47.2009.06

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