My good friend and fellow historian, Phil Bianchi, recently wrote a book on the well-known bushman, tracker, drover and pastoralist Tommy Ningebong. Tommy was a highly regarded Aboriginal man from the Wiluna district. Phil tells me that every person he interviewed about Tommy for the book spoke of how Tommy was a such a genuine […]
An Aboriginal ‘Don Juan’
09/03/2024 By Leave a Comment
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37401376/3453908# Western Mail 25 December 1909, page 91 AN ABORIGINAL DON JUAN By DAISY M. BATES Opportunity makes the thief, and circumstance not infrequently makes the hero or the villain. It was a happy circumstance that delayed Nyooneemurra’s arrival into the world until a few years after white settlement had taken place in his district. […]
Police Honour Legendry Tracker Pannican
05/08/2023 By Leave a Comment
Police Honour Legendary Aboriginal Tracker On the 2nd of July 2008, a memorial was unveiled in Kalgoorlie for one of the state’s most renowned Aboriginal police trackers. Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, who was considered one of the best trackers of his time. He worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 […]
Pannican – grave tales
16/01/2021 By Leave a Comment
Police Honour Legendary Aboriginal Tracker. On the 2nd Jul 2008 a memorial was unveiled in Kalgoorlie for one of the state’s most renowned Aboriginal police trackers. Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, who was considered one of the best trackers of his time. He worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 to […]
A White Hot Flame – book review
27/08/2018 By Leave a Comment
Recently published is a biography: ‘A White Hot Flame: by Sue Taffe, Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice’ Bennett worked tirelessly for justice for Aboriginal people, especially her Wongutha friends whom she first met when she taught at Mount Margaret Mission in the1930s. I thought you might be interested to know about […]
