NT History Grants Recipients 2007

2007 NT History Grants Recipients

Joy Grant Hicks of Victor Harbour:  $1,500 to research a biography of Reverend Archibald Grant.

Ted Ling of Canberra:  $1,400 to research the impact of Commonwealth Government policies on the Northern Territory pastoral industry, 1911-1978.

Terry Whitebeach of Orielton, Tasmania:  $4,000 to research a biography of Rosalie Kunoth Monks.

Bill Wilson of Darwin:  $4,000 to research the history of the NT Police Special Branch and its successor, the Criminal Intelligence Unit.

Heather Douglas of Brisbane:  $3,000 to research a biography of Justice Martin Kriewaldt

Mickey Dewar of Darwin:  $1,500 to research a biography of explorer, Michael Terry.

Diana Giese of Sydney:  $2,000 to research perceptions and perspectives on the Top End from the 1950s to self-government.

Peter Stanley of Canberra:  $2,500 to research the life of Bill Harney, 1895-1962.

Tim Smith of Melbourne:  $2,000 to investigate Darwin’s first photographers associated with the Goyder Survey Expedition.

Matthew Stephen of Darwin:  $2,500 to research and present Larry Donnison’s images of Darwin, 1914-1920.

Ros Jones of Batchelor:  $3,000 to research a biography of Max Sargent.

Elizabeth Ganter of Darwin:  $3,000 to research the role and representation of Aboriginal senior officials in the Northern Territory Government.

Murray Seiffert of Melbourne:  $3,000 to research a biography of Reverend Michael Gumbuli Wurramara of Ngukurr.

Simon Niblock of Darwin:  $1,600 to research a guide to Top End highset houses of the 1950s and 1960s.

Belinda Lang & Sara Boniwell of Alice Springs:  $4,000 to research the life of Jillie Nakamara Spencer of Yuendumu.

Olga Radke of Alice Springs:  $4,000 to research the history and stories of the old Lutheran Church at Alice Springs.

Ken Johnson of Alice Springs:  $4,000 to research a history of early Territorians 1930-1970 through the correspondence of H.H. Finlayson.

Tracy Spencer of Alice Springs:  $3,000 to research and record Indigenous memories and stories about Reverend John Flynn in Alice Springs.