ITH A POPULATION of just 215 in 2021, it’s hard to imagine this sleepy Western Australian town was once the thriving centre of the Murchison Gold Field. When May Vivienne published in 1901, she wrote, “At last I saw the lights of Cue. Electric lights in the streets, horses and carts, the shrill whistle of the railway engine, boys calling out the evening papers…all told me that I had emerged from the ‘back blocks’ and was once more nearing the metropolis.” Cue
