Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette – 9 September 1921, page 3 Missing Aboriginal Couple Near Christmas, two natives called Long Johnny and Thin Judy (tribal names not known) left Hasson’s, Mt. Hale station, for the purpose of attending a corroboree at Bulong on the Belele country, but never reached there. Later, a […]
A Massacre at Laverton –
Western Mail 29 October 1910, page 30 A NATIVE MASSACRE AT LAVERTON A pathetic interest is attached to the following portraits of baby Sunday, aged three months and a half-cast girl Kitty, aged 10 years, in connection with a recent Laverton massacre. The raiders, who were gathered from the surrounding districts of Kalgoorlie, Kookynie. and […]
Tommy Ningebong by Phil Bianchi
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’
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
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 […]