Editing Broome, Western Australia (section)

===1950s to 2000s===
In 1950, Broome was the setting for [[Arthur Upfield]]'s novel ''The Widows of Broome'', his 12th novel featuring Detective Inspector [[Bony (fictional character)|Napoleon Bonaparte]] ("Bony").

Until 1967, Broome's outdoor movie theater Sun Pictures was segregated, with prime seating only for [[white people]]. Malays, Filipinos and First Nations sat on the side or had to stand, and they were required to enter via a separate entrance.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whitley |first=David |date=2017-02-25 |title=Sun Pictures movie theatre Broome, WA: The world's oldest outdoor cinema |url=https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/inspiration/the-worlds-oldest-outdoor-cinema-broome-20170222-gui9qb.html |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Elkington |first=Ruari |date=2024-12-26 |title=Australia has a remarkable history of outdoor cinema. Here's why Netflix will never beat it |url=https://theconversation.com/australia-has-a-remarkable-history-of-outdoor-cinema-heres-why-netflix-will-never-beat-it-244029 |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> As late as 1971, Indigenous people were not accepted into restaurants in Broome.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-11-11 |title=When these men opposed racial segregation at a restaurant 50 years ago, they put civil rights on the menu |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-12/tommy-edgar-albert-barunga-defy-racial-segregation-in-1970s/100414302 |access-date=2025-03-20 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref> Patrons at the Roebuck Hotel and the Continental were segregated, with Aboriginal people drinking at the front bar at the Roebuck Hotel.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rabbitt |first=Elaine |date=2004 |title=Kimberley Women : Their Experiences of Making a Remote Kimberley Women : Their Experiences of Making a Remote Locality Home |url=https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/theses/article/2678/&path_info=Rabbitt_Elaine.pdf |journal=Edith Cowan University Edith Cowan University Research Online}}</ref> In later years, the separated Indigenous bar at the Roebuck Hotel was abolished and it is now The Lounge Bar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} The Roebuck Hotel - The Roey, Broome — Western Australia |url=https://www.roey.com.au/about-the-roey |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=The Roey |language=en-US}}</ref> 

[[File:Gantheaume Point, Broome, ca 1910.jpg|thumb|right|Gantheaume Point, {{circa|1910}}]]
Dinosaur footprints dated as Early [[Cretaceous]] in age (approximately 130 million years ago) were discovered {{Convert|30|m|abbr=on}} out to sea at [[Gantheaume Point]] in the 1960s. The [[fossil trackway|tracks]] can be seen only during very low tide. In 1996, some of the prints were cut from the ground and stolen, but have since been recovered.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s102390.htm|title=PM - Fossil thief gets two years jail|website=www.abc.net.au|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>

Broome entered into a [[Twin towns and sister cities|sister city]] agreement with [[Taiji, Wakayama|Taiji]], [[Japan]] in 1981 as historic ties between the two towns date back to the early 1900s, when Japan became instrumental in laying the groundwork of Broome's [[Pearling in Western Australia|pearling industry]]. The annual [[Dolphin drive hunting|dolphin hunt]] in Taiji was the subject of the 2009 documentary ''[[The Cove (film)|The Cove]]'', and sparked a unanimous decision by Broome's council, headed by Graeme Campbell, to end the relationship with Taiji if the dolphin hunt were to continue. The decision was reversed in October 2009.<ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091015a4.html Australian town embraces Taiji again]</ref>
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[[Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green|Lord Alistair McAlpine]]'s [[Pearl Coast Zoological Gardens]] was opened in August 1984 to serve the burgeoning tourist industry in the town, as was the [[Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park]] opened that same year.{{sfn|Trevor|2000|page=73}} By 1987, tourism started to boom in the town, thanks in part to the bitumen road which had been completed and linked Highway One with Broome and the Kimberley.{{sfn|Trevor|2000|page=240}} According to Martin Peirson-Jones, involved with real estate in the 1980s, there was a large shortage of accommodation between Broome and Kununurra, another town which was experiencing arrivals of bus tours for the first time. Land prices also rose exponentially within a short space of time, in reaction to the town's newfound potential, as recounted by Peirson-Jones: 
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"There were large subdivisions taking place and that led to a change of focus in the town. It was interesting to watch the land auction prices rise from hundreds of dollars to thousands and then tens of thousands, all within the space of a few years. As more people came in they wanted more facilities, better roads and were expecting more. Prior to this nobody worried too much and the expectations were not there."{{sfn|Trevor|2000|page=240}}
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