The Sydney Morning Herald, Anson Cameron - April 2012
A story by Anson Cameron
I have a friend who has decided to make a short film of an excerpt from Such Is Life. His idea is that it might trigger a brief resurrection for the book. The excerpt is the story of a little girl lost in the bush and the search for her. Australia's white settlers lived in constant anxiety of their children disappearing into the wilderness. Furphy was involved in two searches himself; none of the four children he searched for was found alive