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Traditional owner who helped promote birding at NT Parliament opening

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Subject: Traditional owner who helped promote birding at NT Parliament opening
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:14:56 +0000
Good morning

Stephanie Thompson-Nganjmirra, a Larrakia elder, was integral in helping her 
husband’s people, the Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land, in getting to know the 
birders who came to visit my house in the 80s and 90s.  They were too 
uncomfortable around white strangers to even talk to them. But  Stephanie, who 
grew up in Darwin and had travelled the world playing sport, was integral in 
breaking down those barriers.  Consequently the Reverend P. Nganjmirra and 
other traditional owners decided to open their country to birders.

Stephanie and I will be giving the ‘welcome to country’ at the opening of NT 
Parliament tomorrow morning, if any Birding-Aussers are present and wish to pay 
their respects to her.


Denise Lawungkurr  Goodfellow
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
043 8650 835

PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.

Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International  Ecotourism Award, 2004.
Liaison Officer, NT Field Naturalists’ Club

With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent 
becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.

















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