Jacko Campbell and Ted Thomas recall life in the Salt Pan Creek. Jacko: "All of them old fellas used to live out there, the Pattens and all them others. You’d see them old fellas sittin’ around in a ring, when there was anything to be done….' Ted: "They were well educated! They could talk on politics!" Jacko: "hey always DID! ... around the kids!... No matter where they went! ... Specially when there was anything to do about the Aborigines Protection Board! There was talk about writing a petition. That was always goin’ on!"Joe Anderson said he’d be talking to the Duke of Gloucester." Goodall and Cadzow, Rivers and Resilience, p 149