STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH

LULU — HIDDEN, NOT LOST - The Anaiwan ancestor at the beginning of my family story

HIDDEN NO MORE — FOLLOW-UP Frank and Jack Duval: the records behind the family story

HIDDEN NO MORE — THE FACE OF THE NATION HAS A NAME Gwoja Tjungurrayi, Coniston and the extraordinary life hidden behind “One Pound Jimmy”

HIDDEN NO MORE: Part Two - Born to Ride: The Duval Horsemen and an Aboriginal Triumph That Endured

There are some family histories that are handed down in complete sentences. There are names spoken at the kitchen table, photographs placed carefully in albums, dates written in the margins and stories repeated so often that children grow up believing they will always be there. Then there are the histories that survive in fragments. A name written differently in one record and another. A woman described by a European name. A birthplace guessed rather than recorded. A family l

ONE NATION NO MORE: Why I Wrote This Song

Born in Moree: My Family, the Freedom Ride and the Hidden History of Aboriginal Australia

When the Records Speak Our Name Bullcorronda, Mary Ann Quinn and the Wider Story of My Anaiwan Family

By Brian AJ Newman There is a phrase at the heart of Sue Pickrell’s account of my ancestor Granny Duval: “She must have come from somewhere.” For Aboriginal families, those words carry a meaning far greater than genealogy. They concern identity, Country, kinship and the relationships connecting one generation to another. They challenge the silence of incomplete colonial records and the false suggestion that a person without a neatly documented European history somehow appeare