Talk:Pearling in Western Australia

Plagiarism
The paragraph beginning "Early luggers" contains verbatim passages from the fifth cited source article.NonsuchDan (talk) 16:11, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks and Moondyne 00:16, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

other reading
No mention at all of Bailey, John,   The white divers of Broome : the true story of a fatal experiment  Sydney : Macmillan, 2001. ISBN 0732910781 (pbk.) SatuSuro 09:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

To do
Articles lacking WA ref. When this article is a bit more advanced it can give appropriate facts for inclusion elsewhere. Fred 14:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Pearl hunting,
 * Pearling(DAB)
 * many more


 * Used internal source ebroome.com to cite slavery. This lasted for 30 years. Trying to find better book ref. Fred

Copyright problem removed
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