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    Brokenback

    By Barry Flanagan

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    The 1970s is a boom period for the Australian coal industry. Steaming coal, coking coal, it doesn’t matter; customers from all around the world want it yesterday. On the east coast, inland from Newcastle on the South Maitland Coalfields, Tommy Gann drives a continuous miner, a machine that can fill a fifteen ton shuttle car in less than ninety seconds. From Western Australia, he was drawn to the Brokenback Mine to get away from unscrupulous people who’d caused a near-fatal accident to his father at a mine in the Collie Basin. Working nineteen hundred feet below the surface in the Greta Seam – with over ten feet of coal above him for a roof – is a new experience for him. Roof falls are a major concern. So is a shuttle car driver who lives a perilous existence with little concern for others. There’s the union man, determined to fight management tooth and nail for the benefit of the mineworker. There’s also a life outside the mine and the love for a woman Tommy can’t have. Then tragedy strikes and lives are changed forever. The Brokenback story is a tale of love, humour, tragedy, and drama. It describes the mateship between the mineworkers and the hardships they face in their everyday routine - and why they wouldn’t want to work anywhere else but the underground. It also looks at the sufferings of miners from earlier years, those who’ve contracted pneumoconiosis, a debilitating and, for most, a fatal lung disease.Some of the underground scenarios depicted in this book are based on the author’s experience working in underground coalmines. A number of events actually happened and, because of this, names and dates have been changed to protect the privacy of the people involved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Flanagan
    Release dateOct 11, 2015
    ISBN9780994329073
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    Barry Flanagan

    Barry Flanagan was born in the coalmining town of Cessnock, located in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. Having completed his schooling he worked in the industrial city of Newcastle before forging a career in the Defence Forces with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). After six years maintaining and servicing the French built, Mirage III supersonic aircraft - including two of those years in Singapore and Malaya - he opted for a new career in the underground coal mining industry. He worked at a number of mines, each one forced to close because of depleted resources. From there he worked as a training consultant for the mining industry in electrical and Occupational Health & Safety followed by a period with a successful engineering company before retiring. With his partner, Barbara, he now lives in the Macarthur region of New South Wales, an hour’s drive south-west of Sydney.

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