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Past Recipients

2000 NT History Award Recipients

Bain Attwood of Melbourne: $3,000 to research the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1961-1970

Limin Bai
of Wellington, New Zealand: $2,000 to study the issue of women’s lives in the context of cross-cultures by recording the life of a Darwin woman, Mrs Rene Wu.

Bernie Brian of Kempsey, NSW: $4,000 to compile a series of biographical sketches of past trade union leaders of the Northern Territory.

Peter d’Abbs
of Darwin: $4,000 for a study of H.C. Giese and the administration of the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration, 1954-1972.

Shaneen Fantin
of Brisbane: $1,000 to study the history and culture change in Yolngu housing at Galiwin’ku and Ramingining.

Genealogical Society of the NT Inc
: $1,000 to document Katherine District deaths, 1873-1940.

Robin Gregory
of Darwin: $2,000 to document the history of the Hayes family, the last 200 years of a pioneering family of Central Australia.

Katherine Historical Society Inc
: $3,000 to research the history of the original Katherine Airport and terminal building.

Michele Langfield
of Melbourne: $4,000 to examine schemes to populate the Northern Territory, 1939-1978.

John Morris
of Ballarat, Vic: $1,000 to study the transformation of the social and cultural lives of the Tiwi people, 1919-1990s.

Suzanne Parry and Brian Reid
of Darwin: $1,000 to research a history of the Menzies School of Health Research.

Mandy Paul
of Adelaide: $4,000 to research a history of people, place and policy in the pastoral industry of Central Australia, 1872-1939.

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