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The broken lives of Broken Hill
MICHAL BONCZA is reminded of one of the most remote yet extraordinary pieces of public art anywhere dedicated to victims of capitalist greed and the abnegation of human decency
SOLEMN: Line of Lode Miner's Memorial
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PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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THE town of Broken Hill is dominated by a 30-metre-high slag heap, from a now defunct silver mine, on top of which sits a dramatic memorial to the miners who lost their lives in its entrails — well over 800 in total.
The settlement — deep in the “outback” and over 1100km west of Sydney and just over 800km north of Melbourne — became a prosperous boomtown following the discovery of silver deposits in the early 1880s.
Mining operations started 140 years ago in 1883 and continued well into the 1990s.
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