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Past Recipients

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2006 NT History Grants Recipients

Alan Powell of Darwin:  $5,000 to research a history of sea approaches to Darwin.

Anne Gardiner of Bathurst Island:  $3,000 to research the history of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Sisters in the Northern Territory, 1908-2008.

Judith Lovell of Alice Springs:  $5,000 to record and document the stories of Kathleen Wallace, Eastern Arrernte traditional owner and custodian of Keringke.

Kathy De La Rue of Palmerston:  $6,000 to research the development of Darwin during the Commonwealth administration, 1911-1978.

Wendy Beresford-Maning of Darwin:  $1,500 to research the work of missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the Top End.

Noel Kentish of Brisbane:  $5,000 to research the life and work of Territorian missionary and humanitarian, Leonard Noel Kentish.

Matthew Stephen of Darwin:  $2,500 to research a comparative study of Aboriginal involvement in cricket in colonial South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Heather Hancock of Alice Springs:  $4,000 to research midwives’ stories and the history of home birth in the Northern Territory.

Katelyn Hemsley of Alice Springs:  $3,500 to research and record deaths and lone burials in Central Australia.

Stephen Carleton of Brisbane:  $3,500 to research the history of the Darwin Theatre Company, 1959-2009.

Jason Gibson of Alice Springs:  $3,000 to research the history of communism in Central Australia.

Adelaide River Primary School Council:  $3,000 to research the history of the Adelaide River Primary School.

Phil Herdman of Nhulunbuy:  $2,000 to research the origins of early European topographical names in Eastern Arnhem Land.

Elina Spilia of Melbourne:  $3,000 to record oral histories of the Djapu clan of the Yolngu people of North Eastern Arnhem Land.

 

 

 

2005 NT History Grants Recipients

Stephen Gray of Darwin : $3,000 to study the ‘Stolen Wages’ issue in the legal context of the Northern Territory ’s Indigenous history.

Bill Bunbury of Perth : $3,000 to research radio documentaries about the history of various Northern Territory communities along the north-south link.

Dan Sprod of Hobart : $2,000 to research and document the diaries of Ludwig Leichardt’s first Port Essington expedition, 1844-1845.

Gayle Carroll of Darwin : $3,000 to research a brief history of Marrenah House, the Government Women’s Hostel in Darwin , 1947-1959.

James Goulding of Alice Springs : $3,000 to research a history of tourism in Central Australia , 1920-1990.

Colin De La Rue of Palmerston: $1,000 to research and document archaeological sites of Fort Dundas , 1824–1829.

Claire Lowrie of Wollongong : $2,000 to research a history of domestic servants in Darwin , 1900–1942.

Gwenda Baker of Melbourne : $2,000 to research Aborigines, missions and government in Arnhem Land, 1911-1975.

Julia Martinez of Wollongong: $2,500 to research Indonesian labour in the Northern Territory pearl-shell industry and labour migration from Eastern Indonesia to Darwin 1925–1955.

Jason Davidson of Darwin : $2,000 to research and record a Gurindji history of stolen generation, family and country.

Mary Flynn of Alice Springs : $3,000 to research and record oral histories of the lower Finke River region.

NT Breast Cancer Voice : $3,000 to research the impact that Territory women have had on the national and international breast cancer movement.

Julie Wells of Darwin : $3,000 to research the ownership, management and government intervention in the news media in the NT, 1945-1960.

Gregory Crowe of Alice Springs : $4,000 to research and record recollections of retired Territory School Principals about Territory education.

Peter Monteath of Adelaide : $2,500 to research and document the diary recorded by Ernest Favenc during his expedition to the Macarthur River in 1883.

 Noah Riseman of Melbourne : $3,000 to research the defence of Arnhem Land by the Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit in World War II.

Ushma Scales of Alice Springs : $3,000 to research the lives of “the doggers” in the southern Northern Territory .

Jaqueline Van Gent of Perth : $5,000 to research the social history of German missionary wives at Hermannsburg, 1877–1930s.

 

2004 NT History Grants Recipients

Albert Colson of Alice Springs: $3,600 to research the story of the work and times of Central Australian pioneers, Fred and Elsie Colson.

Eva McRae-Williams of Darwin: $1,000 to research history in indigenous community museums focussing on the Tiwi Islands.

Edward Street of Beauty Point, Tasmania: $4,300 to research the convict mechanics who served at the distant settlements of Northern Australia, 1824-1831.

Alan Mayne of Melbourne: $6,000 to research cross-race histories along the northern corridor which opened up with the building of the Overland Telegraph, 1870-1970.

Jack Frawley of Sydney: $2,000 to research adult education and the Aboriginal arts industry in Northern Australia.

Michele Langfield of Melbourne: $3,000 to study responses and perspectives from Northern Territory cultural organisations to global heritage influences.

Pearl Ogden of Darwin: $2,300 to research the lives and times of a selection of people in the Victoria River Downs region, 1890s-1990s.

Barry Allwright of Alice Springs: $2,000 to research the "ruby rush" in Central Australia and its influence on the establishment of Alice Springs.

Angelique Edmonds of Ngukurr: $3,000 to research the confrontation between Aboriginal place and colonialist space in the Roper River area since 1841.

Gerard Waterford & Alec Kruger of Alice Springs: $5,000 to research and document the life and times of Alec Kruger.

Jinki Trevillian of Brisbane: $3,500 to research Japanese and Islander migration in Northern Australia from early to mid-twentieth century.

John Hobson & Josephine Harrison of Woy Woy, NSW: $4,500 to research an internet-mediated project documenting the gay and lesbian history of Central Australia.

Jill Jolliffe of Darwin: $4,000 to research the Northern Territory as a staging point for World War II in Portuguese Timor.

Karen Hughes of Adelaide: $1,800 to research and record oral histories with Roper River elders.

Tony Roberts of Bega, NSW: $4,000 to continue researching a history of Borroloola and the Gulf Country.

2003 NT History Grants Recipients

Alan Powell of Darwin: $5,000 to continue research on the American Army Engineers in the Northern Territory, 1942-1944.

Christine Gordon
of Glasshouse Mountains: $3,000 to research a history of Wadeye (Port Keats).

Glenice Yee
of Darwin: $3,000 to research Chinese migration in the Northern Territory, 1874-2003.

NT Police Museum & Historical Society
: $4,000 to continue recording oral histories of NT Police members and their spouses.

David Bridgman
of Darwin: $3,000 to research the history of tropical colonial architecture in Darwin.

Klaus Neumann
of Melbourne: $2,000 to research Darwin’s response to Deserters and Deportees, 1961-1962.

Colin De La Rue
of Darwin: $2,000 to research the military presence and activities at Fort Dundas, Melville Island.

Dennis Foley
of Brisbane: $4,000 to research a history of Governance in Indigenous Business Enterprises in the Northern Territory.

Peter Monteath
of Adelaide: $2,000 to edit the diary of Emily Creaghe and research her involvement in the Favenc expedition of 1883 through Northern Australia.

Robert Gosford
of Nowra: $3,000 to research a bibliography of Arnhem Land Ornithology, 1803-1964.

Linda Clack
of Alice Springs: $3,000 to research Olive Pink’s experiences in the Northern Territory and her perspective on anthropology and policy in Indigenous affairs.

Andrew McMillan
of Darwin: $4,000 to research a history of the Roper River region.

CAAMA Productions
of Alice Springs: $3,000 to research the life and times of Gurindji man Kumanja Wilson Jupurrula.

Megg Kelham
of Alice Springs: $2,500 to continue to research and document the Pine Gap Peace Camp of 1983.

David Roberts
of Armidale: $1,500 to research a history of western Arnhem Land through the documentation of Aboriginal rock art sites.

Genealogical Society
of the NT: $2,000 to research Centralian deaths at Hermannsburg, Arltunga, Stuart Town Cemetery, Winnecke Depot, Horseshoe Bend and Mount Riddock.

Karen Hughes
of Adelaide: $3,000 to research Ruth Heathcock and her relationship with Aboriginal women in the field of remote health in the Northern Territory in the 1930s.

2002 NT History Grants Recipients

David Baker of New South Wales: $2000 to research a personal account of the Hydrological works and developments in the Top End, 1955-1957.

Alan Powell of Darwin: $1850 to research the story of American Army Engineers in the Northern Territory, 1942-1943.

Robert Ellis
of Toowong: $2650 to research a history of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority, 1980-1989.

Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory, Inc
:$3300 to research the Pioneer Register of the Northern Territory.

Cathy Robinson
of Canberra: $2700 to research buffalo histories from Oenpelli.

John Dargavel
of Canberra: $2000 to research the history of the paperbark forest lands of the Northern Territory.

Shirley Brown
of Alice Springs: $3000 to research the biographies of famous Australians and their experiences in the Alice Springs region.

Northern Territory Police Museum and Historical Society
:$4000 to record oral histories of NT Police members and their spouses.

Kate Lance
of Melbourne: $2000 to research pearling luggers of the Northern Territory, 1920-1940.

Sally Ingleton & John Moore
of Melbourne: $3000 to research a documentary script about Olive Pink.

Bill Bunbury & Geoffrey Bolton
of Perth: $5000 to research a regional history of Northern Australia (the Kimberleys, the Top End and Far North Queensland).

Nicholas Gill
of Wollongong: $3500 to research the Central Australian pastoral industry and the 1958-1965 drought.

Megg Kelham
of Alice Springs: $2000 to research and document the Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp, 1983.

Darryl Butler
of Darwin: $2000 to research the Desert Rose, a history of the Northern Territory University’s solar car, 1986-2001.

Justin O’Brien
of Jabiru: $4000 to research new documentation about the Coniston killings of 1928.

Howard Smith
of Yirrkala: $3000 to study the history of the contact art of North East Arnhem Land.

James Warden
of Alice Springs: $4000 to research the administration of Justice in Central Australia, 1925-1940.

2001 NT History Awards Recipients

William & Susan Emilsen of Sydney: $2,000 to research a history of the Northern Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia, 1977-2001.

John Mulvaney of Canberra: $2,500 to research and edit the letters of Patrick Cahill to Baldwin Spencer, 1912-1921.

Suzanne Parry of Darwin: $4,200 to research a history of the East Arm Leprosarium.

Beverley Phelts of Darwin: $1,950 to research the history of Water Development in the Northern Territory.

Peter Thorley of Alice Springs: $2,500 to research a history of floods in Central Australia.

Ian Hillock of Katherine: $2,500 to research the history of farm settlement in the Northern Territory.

Liam Campbell of Yuendemu: $3,000 to record life stories with Darby Jampijimpa Ross of Yuendemu.

The Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory : $2,750 to research Timber Creek, Victoria River, Wave Hill and surrounding districts Deaths, 1856-1994.

Michael Davis of Canberra: $3,950 to research European-Australian representations of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Northern Territory.

Jack Frawley of Gunbalanya: $1,280 to research the Melville Island Enquiry into Joe Cooper, 1914.

Pamela Oliver of Melbourne: $2,670 to research the history of Japanese influence on Northern Territory affairs between the two world wars.

Cameron Taylor of Melbourne: $1,600 to research the history of the Mackay Aerial Reconnaissance Survey Expedition of Central Australia, 1930-1937.

Bill Bunbury & Geoffrey Bolton of Perth: $5,000 to research the history of Northern Australia as it related to the rest of the Continent.

The Historical Society of Katherine: $3,000 to continue researching the history of the Katherine Airstrip and Radio Control Building.

Maisie Austin of Darwin: $2,300 to research the history of Northern Territory Women in Sport.

Kathy Mills & Di Koser of Darwin: $2,000 to research the achievements of Jack McGuiness in his quest for social justice for Aboriginal people.

Rosemary Plummer of Tennant Creek: $3,800 to record Aboriginal Oral Histories in the Barkly region.

Julie Wells of Darwin: $3,000 to research a history of the Media in the Northern Territory, 1952-1962.

2000 NT History Award Recipients

Bain Attwood of Melbourne: $3,000 to research the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1961-1970

Limin Bai
of Wellington, New Zealand: $2,000 to study the issue of women’s lives in the context of cross-cultures by recording the life of a Darwin woman, Mrs Rene Wu.

Bernie Brian of Kempsey, NSW: $4,000 to compile a series of biographical sketches of past trade union leaders of the Northern Territory.

Peter d’Abbs
of Darwin: $4,000 for a study of H.C. Giese and the administration of the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration, 1954-1972.

Shaneen Fantin
of Brisbane: $1,000 to study the history and culture change in Yolngu housing at Galiwin’ku and Ramingining.

Genealogical Society of the NT Inc
: $1,000 to document Katherine District deaths, 1873-1940.

Robin Gregory
of Darwin: $2,000 to document the history of the Hayes family, the last 200 years of a pioneering family of Central Australia.

Katherine Historical Society Inc
: $3,000 to research the history of the original Katherine Airport and terminal building.

Michele Langfield
of Melbourne: $4,000 to examine schemes to populate the Northern Territory, 1939-1978.

John Morris
of Ballarat, Vic: $1,000 to study the transformation of the social and cultural lives of the Tiwi people, 1919-1990s.

Suzanne Parry & Brian Reid
of Darwin: $1,000 to research a history of the Menzies School of Health Research.

Mandy Paul
of Adelaide: $4,000 to research a history of people, place and policy in the pastoral industry of Central Australia, 1872-1939.

1999 NT History Awards Recipients

Peter & Maureen Dunham of Darwin: $2,000 for researching the O’Shea family history in the Northern Territory.

Shirley Brown of Alice Springs: $3,000 for recording the stories of 50 famous Australians and their experiences in the Alice Springs region.

Arnhem Land Historical Society: $3,500 for researching a brief history of Arnhem Land.

Genealogical Society of the NT and the National Trust Gulf Branch: $3,000 for researching pioneer graves in the Borroloola and Gulf District and the Anthony Lagoon and Barkly District.

Peter Evans of Sydney: $1,000 to complete research on the RAN Fairmile Ships based at Darwin during World War 11.

Clayton Fredericksen of Darwin: $4,000 for archaeological research and heritage management at Fort Dundas, Melville Island.

Lisa Watts of Alice Springs: $3,000 for researching the indigenous history of Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs, Mt Doreen Station).

Yvette Park of Alice Springs: $1,200 to research the lives of Eastern Arrernte woman, Rose Cooper, and her daughters.

Teresa Napurrurla Ross of Alice Springs: $2,000 to record and document accounts of the Coniston Massacre.

Barbara James of Darwin: $2,800 to research the Territory’s oldest church building and site, the Old Wesleyan Church in Darwin.

Genealogical Society of the NT: $3,500 to continue researching the Pioneer Register of the Northern Territory.
Darwin High School: $1,000 to assist students researching the history of the Darwin High School site.

1998 NT History Awards Recipients

Max Cartwright of Alice Springs: $1,000 for researching a selection of short stories relating to Territory history.

Diane Clark of Darwin: $2,000 for documenting the work of Roy Harrington, a hygiene worker in the Aboriginal community of Timber Creek, 1985-1997.

Suzanne Parry of Darwin: $1,500 for documenting the medical work carried out by missionary nurses in the Northern Territory.

Glen McLaren of Perth: $3,000 for a study of the Northern Territory cattle industry since 1864.

Anthony Paradies of Darwin: $1,900 for researching the origins and growth of the Filipino community in the Top End.

Ian Hillock of Katherine: $2,000 for a study of sugar growing on the Daly River, 1880-1884.

Bruce Reyburn of Thirroul: $2,800 for the collection and recording of stories about John Clancy of Ti Tree.

Wendy Macdonald of Darwin: $1,600 for a social history of the Crafts Council of the Northern Territory, 1978-1998.

Helen Spiers of Jabiru: $2,000 for researching the history of the Jabiru Area School.

Wendy Kraft of Klemzig: $2,000 for researching the history of the development of the prison system of the Northern Territory.

Sally Butler of Chelmer: $2,000 for researching a recent history of the art communities of Yuendumu and Utopia.

The Katherine Region of Writers: $2,500 for recording historical accounts of the 1998 Katherine Flood.

Michele Langfield of Melbourne: $2,000 for a study of immigration encouragement to the Northern Territory, 1901-1939.

Tim Smith & Kim Portlock of Darwin: $1,200 for documenting the work of Northern Territory photographers of the colonial period.

Minoru Hokari of Sydney: $2,500 for recording the teachings of Aboriginal historians in the Victoria River District.

1997 NT History Awards Recipients

Glen McLaren, Bill Cooper & Geoffrey Bolton of Perth:
$2,000 for documenting the skills of the early northern cattle industry.

Bill Wilson of Darwin:
$2,500 for researching Northern Territory Police leaders Paul Foelsche, Nicholas Waters and George Dudley.

Peter Evans of Sydney:
$1,000 for researching the history of the RAN Fairmile ships based at Darwin during World War II.

Lyn Riddett of Darwin:
$700 to document weddings in the Northern Territory, 1869-1969.

Michael Christie of Darwin:
$2,000 to record the history of the Daly River Copper Mine, 1884-1896.

Robert Alford of Darwin:
$2,500 for researching the history of the 49th Fighter Group of the US Air Force and its deployment to the Northern Territory during World War II.

Velma Leeding of Groote Eylandt:
$3,000 for recording local history of the Umbakumba people.

Julie Wells of Darwin:
$900 for researching the Australian Government’s promotion to assimilation and settlement of the Northern Territory, 1951-1972.

Kerin Coulehan of Darwin:
$1,600 for researching the history of the Darwin to Ambon Yacht race, 1976-1997.

Genealogical Society of the NT:
$2,000 for researching the Pioneer register of the Northern Territory.

Tony Austin of Darwin:
$1,000 for researching and recording the history of the Bungalow in Alice Springs.

Barunga-Manyallaluk Community Council:
$1,600 for recording the development of Barunga Community Government.

Elizabeth Mellor of Melbourne:
$1,400 for researching childhood experiences on Central Australian pastoral properties and towns, 1910-1970.

Barbara James of Darwin:
$5,000 for researching a social history of the Pine Creek gold fields with emphasis on Burrundie, Yam Creek and Grove Hill, 1870-1900.

Tony Roberts of Canberra:
$2,800 for researching and recording oral histories of the Borroloola region.

1996 NT History Awards Recipients

Bev Phelts of Darwin:
$1,000 for researching the history of Water and Power Supply in the NT.

Paul Rosenzweig of Darwin:
$1,500 for photographic and oral history work on the service of the Gull Force in Darwin and Ambon.

Judith Whitaker of Alice Springs:
$2,000 for researching an expanded history of Borroloola.

Ian Walters of Darwin:
$3,000 for researching and recording oral histories about Vietnamese contributions to Territory history.

Gary Lee of Darwin:
$3,000 for researching the Aboriginal-Filipino links in Darwin since 1870.

Keith Hart of Darwin:
$2,600 for collation of historic photographs of mission days at Oenpelli.

Julia Martinez of Wollongong:
$2,500 for researching the history of the Port of Darwin, 1911-1938.

William Bradford of Adelaide:
$1,500 for researching the Recipients of the Royal Australian Navy Honours and Awards for gallantry after the air-raids on the Northern Territory in 1942.

Howard Smith of Nhulunbuy:
$1,000 for researching the history of European settlement at Elcho Island prior to 1942.

Samantha Wells of Darwin:
$2,000 for researching Aboriginals, Land and Identity: Historical and Current Perspectives from Darwin.

The Genealogical Society of the NT:
$1,000 for researching a record of NT Deaths, 1941-1952.

Eve Gibson of Darwin:
$1,000 for researching a Dictionary of Northern Territory History.

Geoffrey Gray of Canberra:
$1,500 for researching the work of EWP Chinnery, the first Director of Native Affairs in the NT, 1939-1947.

Jane Bathgate of Darwin:
$1,000 for mapping an oral history of Pine Creek.

James Cameron of Darwin:
$3,000 for researching the British Occupation of Northern Australia, 1824-1849.

Julie Marcus of Albury:
$2,400 for an Intellectual Biography of Olive M. Pink.

1995 NT History Award Recipients

Roberta Buchanan of Berry Springs;
$1,600 to assist with a biography of pioneer bushman, Nat Buchanan.

Arch Grant of Sydney;
$700 to assist with a history of early Methodist Missions in Arnhem Land.

Anne Gardiner of Bathurst Island;
$3,500 to assist with a history of the 'Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Sisters' in the Northern Territory.

Stephen Harris of Darwin;
$1,300 to assist with the story of Nell Harris, an Oenpelli teacher in the 1930's.

Philip Costigan of Port Keats;
$2,300 to assist with a history of the Port Keats area prior to White settlement.

Jose Petrick of Alice Springs;
$400 to assist with research for the second edition of her book about Alice Springs Street and Place Names.

Roderick Home of Melbourne;
$4,000 for interpretative and transcription work on the historic letters between Maurice Holtze and Ferdinand Von Mueller, 1878-1891, about Top-End plants.

David Smith of Nhulunbuy;
$500 to assist with a history of the Elcho Island Naphtha Petroleum Company.

Paul Hills of Alice Springs;
$3,000 to assist with a history of Geology in Central Australia.

John Morris of Ballarat;
$3,000 to assist with a history of contact between the Tiwi people and representatives of outside cultures until 1918.

Helen Wilson of Darwin,
$3,100 for research and compilation of transcripts of interstate collections of historic letters from the Northern Territory.

Pauline Ross of Alice Springs;
$2,650 for oral history work with Mona Byrnes about the women of her pioneering Centralian family, the Johannsens.

Tom Lewis of Darwin;
$4,950 to research the story of the submarine 1-124 which was sunk outside Darwin Harbour in 1942.