The Sawmiller’s Daughter — What Survival Cost Families in Australia’s Timber Industry
Автор: Down Under Author Interviews
Загружено: 2026-02-09
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Set on the Eastern Dorrigo Plateau in early–mid 20th-century Australia, this interview with Sarah Smith, author of The Sawmiller’s Daughter, examines the human cost of Australia’s bush sawmilling industry — beyond nostalgia, beyond myth.
At the centre of the novel is Mags McClement, a young woman raised in a world where timber work shapes identity, family loyalty, and survival. Sawmilling is not just an occupation here; it is pressure — economic, physical, and emotional — passed down through generations.
This conversation explores:
life in Australia’s early timber and sawmilling communities
women’s lives and constrained choices in rural Australia
how labour, landscape, and family obligation define belonging
what is inherited when hardship is never spoken about
Rather than romanticising the bush, this episode asks harder questions about endurance, silence, and the quiet moral weight history leaves behind.
Down Under Interviews treats history as lived experience — focusing on the people who carry its consequences long after the work is done.
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