Description
A doctor arrives in the remote Australian town of Gundagai, passionate about the new medicine and Dr. Lister’s pioneering surgery, Louis Gabriel is fired with hope and determination. But he is new, black and overqualified, in the wrong place at the wrong time. So how long will he last?
Based on the life of the eminent photographer, surgeon and medico, Dr Gabriel, in legendary Gundagai. Employed as Chief Medical Officer of Gundagai Hospital, a chain of events pits him against a humiliated Dr. O'Dwyer and a town crusade against people of colour. This is his struggle for acceptance as a doctor and a man in an era where Federation could stifle his ambitions and standing. What hope has he of romance, and a normal family life? Can he and his camera overcome envious medicos and the machinations of Gundagai’s colourful characters? How will he cope with religious animosities, economic hardships and the rising ‘White Australia’ policy?
The story climaxes in 1900, with the coming of Federation, the Jimmy Blacksmith terror, the Plague and the murderous Boer twenty Gabriel images inhabit this story, adding fresh insights into Gundagai, its characters and the making of a