Percy Hobson (high jumper)
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Percy Francis Hobson was an Australian high jumper. He won the men's event at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, making him the first Indigenous Australian to earn a gold medal a
A mural of Hobson in Bourke, 2021
Bourke, New South Wales
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Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. The administrative centre and largest town in Bourke Shire, Bourke is approximately 800 kilometres north-west of the state capital, Sy
Court house, former maritime court
A camel caravan in Bourke circa 1900
The old Towers Drug Company Building – built 1889–1890
Bourke Post Office – built 1880