Past Recipients
1995 NT History Award Recipients
Roberta Buchanan of Berry Springs;
$1,600 to assist with a biography of pioneer bushman, Nat Buchanan.
Arch Grant of Sydney;
$700 to assist with a history of early Methodist Missions in Arnhem Land.
Anne Gardiner of Bathurst Island;
$3,500 to assist with a history of the 'Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Sisters' in the Northern Territory.
Stephen Harris of Darwin;
$1,300 to assist with the story of Nell Harris, an Oenpelli teacher in the 1930's.
Philip Costigan of Port Keats;
$2,300 to assist with a history of the Port Keats area prior to White settlement.
Jose Petrick of Alice Springs;
$400 to assist with research for the second edition of her book about Alice Springs Street and Place Names.
Roderick Home of Melbourne;
$4,000 for interpretative and transcription work on the historic letters between Maurice Holtze and Ferdinand Von Mueller, 1878-1891, about Top-End plants.
David Smith of Nhulunbuy;
$500 to assist with a history of the Elcho Island Naphtha Petroleum Company.
Paul Hills of Alice Springs;
$3,000 to assist with a history of Geology in Central Australia.
John Morris of Ballarat;
$3,000 to assist with a history of contact between the Tiwi people and representatives of outside cultures until 1918.
Helen Wilson of Darwin,
$3,100 for research and compilation of transcripts of interstate collections of historic letters from the Northern Territory.
Pauline Ross of Alice Springs;
$2,650 for oral history work with Mona Byrnes about the women of her pioneering Centralian family, the Johannsens.
Tom Lewis of Darwin;
$4,950 to research the story of the submarine 1-124 which was sunk outside Darwin Harbour in 1942.
