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off topic. Carlton football Club contacts for dying Aboriginal elder

To: Denise Goodfellow <>
Subject: off topic. Carlton football Club contacts for dying Aboriginal elder
From: David Clark <>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:49:00 +1100
Denise

I have made some enquiries and hopefully be able to give you some contacts.

If you are on Facebook, there is a NT Carlton Supporters page and someone
there may be able to help too.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/124937110858656/

Cheers

David

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Denise Goodfellow <
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> Morning all
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> Some of you may remember my writing over the years about my Aboriginal
> relatives - Rev. P. Nganjmirra and his wife, Stephanie Thompson, a Larrakia
> elder - I helped them start a little tourism project (the Baby Dreaming
> Project) in western Arnhem Land.  They recognised the importance of
> birdwatching, and with other elders throughout the area decided to set
> aside their best hunting billabong for birders.
>
> Rev. Nganjmirra died a few years ago.  But by then we knew that the
> writing was on the wall for Stephanie - she has the neurodegenerative
> Machado-Joseph disease.  Stephanie is in the final stages of the disease,
> and her last wish is to see Carlton play in Melbourne.  She will be coming
> down with her sister, Una, and two carers.
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>  Does anyone on this list have any Carlton contacts?  It would be simply
> wonderful if she could meet with some of her heroes.
>
> Thanks
> Denise
>
> Denise Lawungkurr  Goodfellow
> PO Box 71
> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
>
> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
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> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
> Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern Territory
> 043 8650 835
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