Summary

Ena Esson with a cockatoo at her family's farm in Annuello, 1923.
The Esson family left Annuello in 1926. Annuello is a small town near Robinvale located near the Victoria / New South Wales border.
It is best known for being a returned soldiers settlment town after World War I under the Australian government's soldier settlement scheme. The scheme's aim was to encourage soldiers to acquire land and become farmers in order to set up a life for themselves and develop rural areas. In the case of Annuello, the scheme was not a success. Soldiers were allocated small lots of farmland, conditions in the Mallee region were unforgiving and most of them had little farming experience. This set many of them up for a time of great hardship and failed farming efforts. It often resulted in many of them leaving the town.

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A young girl with a cockatoo on her shoulder. She is standing in a farm yard.

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