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COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. We of the Never-never by Gunn, Jeannie, 1870-1961.

Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more. Jeannie was educated at home by her mother and at 17 matriculated at the University of Melbourne.

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On 16 March 1903 Aeneas died of malarial dysentery and Jeannie returned to Melbourne shortly afterwards. However, she travelled south and her book describes the journey and settling in. In Palmerston (Darwin), Gunn was discouraged from accompanying her husband to the station on the basis that as a woman she would be 'out of place' on a station such as the Elsey. On 2 January 1902 the couple sailed for Port Darwin so that he could take up his role as the station's new manager.

Her husband was a partner in Elsey cattle station on the Roper River, some 483 km (300 miles) south of Darwin. Gunn was the first white woman to settle in the Mataranka area.

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