The First Garden goes from the Alice to Sydney

A play about Alice Springs pioneer Olive Pink has had sell-out shows in the NT and is now set to be performed at the Sydney Botanic Gardens.
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How a girl from Tasmania with the colourful name of Olive Pink became an Alice Springs pioneer, an activist for Indigenous rights and an early environmentalist who travelled the Nullarbor with Daisy Bates and became a lifelong friend of Albert Namatjira has all the makings of a play. That’s what Alice Springs residents Christopher and Natasha Raja thought too. Chris Raja prepared this report of their play The First Garden for ArtsHub:


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