A diverse, working-class neighborhood of Sydney, where Laurie grows up.
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Erskineville Term Timeline in Black Diggers
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Act One
...all have a fifth sense or something.” Laurie insists that he “grew up in bloody Erskineville!” and the others ask why he kept getting sent “on recky” (reconnaissance). Laurie responds that...
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