NT History Grants Recipients 2005

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.