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Series 8: Native Title WA

BOX 19

2001- 2009: Senior Anthropologist, Esperance Nyungar Native Title Claim, Goldfields Land and Sea Council, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

• Administration: letters, faxes, emails etc
• ‘General’ file

Australian Cultural Heritage Management. (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access all reports required from Australian Cultural Heritage Management)

• Bullenbuk genealogy reports / report prepared for Goldfields Land Council (confidential draft) Restricted – culturally sensitive or gender restricted – not to be accessed by unauthorised persons
• Relevant information from various sources about factors influencing current Native Title Claims – Bullenbuk and Ngadju / report prepared for Goldfields Land Council (confidential draft) Restricted – culturally sensitive or gender restricted – not to be accessed by unauthorised persons
• Reference list for current research work for Native Title Claims in the south-west region of Western Australia / prepared for Goldfields Land Council (confidential draft)
• Anthropology Strategy report (Stage 2 b) on Native Title clams in the Southern Goldfields region …: a progress report … Neale Draper (1998) CONFIDENTIAL
• Videos (VHS tapes) Field trip with the Bullen family, Esperance May 1999; Field trip with the Bullen family, Esperance September 1999; Interview with Dabb family, Esperance 1999 (2 copies)

BOX 20

REPORTS

• Reports by Suzi Hutchings 2001. ‘Working paper report on fieldwork and library and archival research for the expert anthropological report on the Bullenbuk native Title determination application’ (June 2001); ‘Confidential draft working file: Bullenbuk-Noongar Native Title determination application site dossier’ [part 1] (May 2001) and 2 (September 2001) (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the Bullenbuk community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council; related emails)
• Esperance Nyungar Native Title Claim WAG6097 …– Federal Court action … Reports. 6 items. “CONFIDENTIAL FOR COURT ACTION ONLY.” (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the Bullenbuk community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council)

• Statement of archaeological evidence … / Kate Morse (June 2003)
• Linguistic report … / Nicholas Thieberger June 2003)
• Applicant’s historical report / Anna Haebich (June 2003)
• Historian’s expert report … / Craig Muller (July 2003)
• Applicant’s anthropological report / Suzi Hutchings (August 2003), with correspondence and notes
• Historian’s expert report … /Chris Stronach (November 2003)
• First respondent’s anthropological report / Michael Robinson (November 2003)

• Esperance Nyungar Native Title Claim (WAG 6097/98) Connection report / compiled by the Goldfields Land & Sea Council (2005). 1 spiral bound book. (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the individual author/s, the Esperance Nyungar community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council )
• Witness statements in support of the Esperance Nyungar Native Title claim / provided to the State of Western Australia by the Goldfields Land and Sea Council … (2008)  1 spiral bound book
• Supplementary witness statement of Graham Tucker in support of the Esperance Nyungar Native Title claim / provided to the State of Western Australia by the Goldfields Land and Sea Council … (2008)  1 spiral bound book

BOX 21

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT

• EN [Esperance Nyungar] supplementary report workings & notes. Includes draft paper on ‘Claiming native title in the Esperance region …: a preliminary discussion’ / Philip Moore; extracts from Report on land tenure history … 1999; additional family information; Confidential briefing memo (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the Esperance Nyungar community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council) etc.
• Esperance Nyungar Native Title determination application …: supplementary anthropological report to the Goldfields Land and Sea Council, Western Australia / Suzi Hutchings (December 2008) FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEDIATION ONLY. With Attachments A-H: genealogies (January 2007) and Attachment I: Sources for genealogies (January 2007) (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the Esperance Nyungar community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council) 
• Esperance Nyungar Native Title determination application …: further supplementary anthropological report to the Goldfields Land and Sea Council, Western Australia / Suzi Hutchings (January 2007) FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEDIATION ONLY. (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the Esperance Nyungar community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council)  
• ‘Review of Esperance Nyungar Supplementary Connection material’ / Michael Robinson (May 2007). With Issues identified by Robinson (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required the author, the Esperance Nyungar community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council); related emails etc. (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings) 
• Notebook including Issues to be discussed at expert’s conference between Hutchings and Robinson 2007; notes for supplementary EN report; notes from fieldtrip 2008

BOX 22

FIELDWORK / INTERVIEWS / GENEALOGIES

• Notes for Esperance Nyungar (Bullenbuk) report ca 2003
• Fieldwork information (various) 1998-2010
• Esperance Nyungar fieldtrips / Connection evidence session March & April 2008
• Printout transcripts of interviews Norseman/Esperance area 2001  1 folder
• Printout transcripts of interviews at Esperance and Kalgoorlie 2003  1 folder
• ‘GLC – Western Australia folder.’ Includes Esperance Nyungar Native Title claim preservation evidence April 2003: On country hearings: photograph album’ (2003) Compiled from photographs taken by Suzi Hutchings and Phil Drayson; photocopied ‘Appendix 2: List of all references to named Aboriginal people’; affidavits; claimant applications etc
   
  
  

BOX 23

• Family information from claimants (ms and photocopies)  1 folder
• Birdsell genealogies (ms photocopies)  1 folder
• Laves material: partial index and copies of ms material from Gerhardt Laves’ Kurin material from AIATSIS
• Copies from Laves ‘WA genealogical pages’ from AIATSIS, plus photocopied print sources
• [Photocopies of primary sources etc.] Includes genealogical information, Child Welfare, Chief Secretary’s Dept and Dept of Native Affairs files, ‘Preliminary report on song in the Goldfields region’ / Linda Barwick (1999) DRAFT/CONFIDENTIAL (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from the author, the Goldfields community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council). Photocopied print sources. Also CD ‘Songs from the AIATSIS Archive’
   
  
  

BOX 24

Tindale – Harvard Adelaide Expedition Journal genealogies & genealogical information
Western Australia: Esperance Nyungar / Womber etc. Includes genealogical information from Tindale, Harvard Adelaide Expedition, Birdsell, Bates etc. CD of maps from SA Museum
Tindale – SA Museum copies
 

BOX 25

• Tindale genealogies for Esperance, plus vocabulary and sacred organisation, journals; also Hugenin vocabulary and Harding letter to Tindale
• Daisy Bates information (genealogies provided by GLC, Bates correspondence and other papers)
• Relevant notes from Kate Alport 2003 re Bates, Tindale, Birdsell
• Craig Muller extracts on Chronology of events and Database of Aboriginals named on the historic record for Esperance region; Tucker family information; transcripts from Esperance police occurrence books 1879-1922; extracts from Dempsters Day Book 1873-1878, AAD Annual Reports 1899-1962 & Aboriginal Protection Board
   
  
  

BOX 26

• Native Welfare Dept – copies from files
• Genealogies compiled by Hutchings 2006
• New information for Esperance Nyungar claim 2006 & 2007. Includes family information and genealogies, Native Welfare etc, files, extracts from ‘Stories of the Oldfield River’, interviews ‘Laves’ Noongar notes: genealogies’ copies of ms, emails etc, CD Office of Native Title Connection workshop November 2004
   
  
  

BOX 27

ARCHIVES / PRINT SOURCES

• Archival research notes
• AIATSIS information
• Esperance Nyungar DVD ‘Film guide’ provided to the State of WA by GL&SC on behalf of the Esperance Nyungar native title applicants …’ August 208
• GL&SC references (= photocopied extracts)
• Archaeological information (photocopied print sources)
• Linguistics references (= photocopied extracts)
   
  
  

BOX 28

• Completed readings (= photocopied print sources)
• Readings produced by GL&SC for supplementary report

BOX 29

BOOKS/PRINTED REPORTS

• Report: ‘Preliminary report on ethnographic evidence for the existence of Native Title in the Mt Ridley area” /Scott Campbell-Smith (1996) ALS LAND & HERITAGE REPORT FOR INTERNAL PURPOSES ONLY (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from the author and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council)
• Report: Aboriginal Heritage: report of an Aboriginal Heritage survey Proposes Culham Inlet Road deviation Fitzgerald River National Park, Hopetoun, Western Australia’ / E.C. Blockley and D. Lantzke (1995) Draft
• ‘Site identification survey … Mount Ridley Project Esperance WA’ / prepared for the BHP Exploration by Ronald T. Parker (1999) (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from the author and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council
• ‘Site avoidance survey of miscellaneous licences [Bandalup Hill Nickel Project]’ / Ronald T. Parker et al for Comet Resources Ltd (2000) (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from the author and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council)
• Thesis: ‘Recherche a l’Esperance: a prehistory of the Esperance region of South-Western Australia’ / Moya Vikki Smith PhD - (U. of WA, 1993)
• Book. ‘Mallee schoolday memories: a history & memories of education in the Western Australian Mallee 1917-1988’
• Book. ‘Old Esperance pictorial history 1894-1947’ / Don Voigt (1996)
• ‘Single Noongar Native Title claim … Anthropologist’s report’ / Kingskey Palmer (2004)

BOX 30

NOTEBOOKS, CDS, MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, RECORDINGS ETC

• Field notebooks of Suzi Hutchings for Esperance Nyungar / GL&SC work 2001-8. 9 A4 & 4 pocket notebooks
• Cassette tapes of interviews with Bell, Correll and Dickson families 2002-3 (13 cassettes) and Nyunnawal general family meeting Sydney March 2002 (1 cassette)

 

BOX 31

• CDs: copies of various reports and working files; Court transcripts Esperance Nyungar claims April 2003; Bibliography WA and Muller’s Esperance database; Research info (personal histories, AIATSIS databases, NNTT bibliographies, general); Archive information (Stock routes etc); Fire management plan Fitzgerald bay, Esperance database); Archive file EN 2008 (photos, interviews etc 2001-8); Recording of expert conference18/9/2007 (2 parts); Esperance Nyungar DVD vol. 2 7/8/2008 (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings, the Esperance Nyungar community and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council); GLD 6/8/2008; EN & Qld reports and other data.15 CDs
• 3 1/2 inch discs. Tape transcriptions Diane Clinch, Graham, Gail? Jaimeson, WA Bullenbuk); interview transcripts 2003; Esperance Police records, Dempster Station records, Esperance newspaper) 6 discs
• Maps (3 folders) including CDs eg Daisy Bates map
• Photographs: 7 packets plus negatives, 4 DVDs plus captions list
• Printout. Federal Court of Australia … The State of WA v. Frank Sebastian and others (on behalf of the Rubibi People’ (2008)

BOX 32

• Cassette recordings of interviews

• Allan Bullen, Salmon Gums camping sites & Peake Charles / Allan Bullen & Allen Graham at Esperance 26/7/2001 (plus copy)
• Allan Bullen & Allen Graham (v. bad recording) 26/7/2001 / Annie Dabb, Henry Dabb & Annette Dabb 8/7/2001
• A. Bullen, Elder Brother’s Campsite 6/3/2001; Mt Ridley & Thomas River 10/3/2001
• Allan Bullen at town sites, Pink Lake 19/7/2001; A Bullen, Bindi Creek sites 22/7/2001 / A. Bullen, Salmon Gums Camping sites with Shirline Bullen, Daniel & Zoe (kids) (plus copy)
• Allan Bullen, Elaine Bullen, Betty Bullen, Elder Brother’s campsite & waterhole 6/3/2001; and with Shirline at Mt Ridley 8/3/2001; Robert Reynolds AAD (Albany), B. Thomas, River & Next Bay 10/3/2001
• Charlie Moir 12/3/2001 & Allan Bullen, Munglinup Beach 17/3/2001 (plus copy)
• Alexander Bay, Munglinup River & Charlie Moir, Quogi beach 12/3/2001 & Fanny Bay
• Betty Bullen’s tapes (plus T.W. Bullen, Alan Harris, Charlie Dabb, Sammy Dabb, Gordon Harris) – language tape
• Diane Clinch, Norseman Aboriginal Community (ex Reserve) 4/12/2001 (plus copy)
• Annie Dabb, Wongatha 15/1/2003 (plus copy)
• Annie Dabb, Henry Dabb 28/7/2001 (plus copy)
• Songs by Charles & Sammy Dabb recorded 1970 by G. von Brandenstein
• Nyungar songs (Charlie Dabb, Sammy Dabb, etc. Betty Bullen’s tape
• Lurline Graham, Kalgoorlie 5/12/2001 plus copy
• Gail Jaimeson, Esperance 30/11/2001 (2 tapes & copies)
• Lynette Knapp with Lorna Knapp & Marian  , Esperance 3/12/2001 (plus copy)
• Jean McKenzie, Esperance 16/1/2003 (plus copy)
• Jean McKenzie, Kalgoorlie 10/12/2001 (plus copy)
• Doc Reynolds, Esperance 16/1/2003 (plus copy)
• Melvyn Reynolds, Kalgoorlie 20/1/2003 (plus copy)
• Graham Tucker, Esperance, Bay of Fishes 15/1/2003 (plus copy)
• Phyllis Wicker & Linda Wicker, Esperance 17/1/2003 (plus copy)

BOX 33

2003-2006: Anthropologist, Wom-ber Native Title Claim preliminary mediation, Goldfields Land and Sea Council, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

Goldfields, WA

• [Wom-ber folder 1] Womber interviews November 2004, Tindale map showing Wom-ber and Nyungar overlap, genealogies from Daisy Bates, genealogies, extracts from Tindale’s WA journal 1966, files from SA Museum archives, DVD Womber to January 2004
• Womber NT Claim notebook 2003-
• National Native Title Tribunal. Research report: Genealogical material for Native Title application Wom-ber WC96/105 Western Australia (June 2007)
• New material – Womber (2005) Includes genealogies, CD of Tindale Womber map
• Information from May 2006 meeting in Esperance, includes draft ‘Anthropological Briefing Report in regard to Wom-ber connection within the Esperance region to the Goldfields Land & Sea Council … ‘ / Hutchings (June 2006)
• Wom-ber Native Title claim … Confidential expert anthropological report to the Goldfields Land and Sea Council …’ / Suzi Hutchings (January 2004) Esperance Nyungar (CONFIDENTIAL – permission to access required from Suzi Hutchings and the Goldfields Land & Sea Council)