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The Gold diggers

Australia, 1960
film

A humorous dramatisation of the ballad about two diggers in search of gold. They are frustrated by bad weather, the lure of the ‘grog’, hard rock,..

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Gold diggers' ballad: the watercolours of S.T.Gill (1818-80)

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Gold diggers Of 1933

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Land of gold

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Golden beginnings

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