TOBA Library

TOBA’s Old Scholars’ Library includes a collection of donated books authored, edited or illustrated by former students of Trinity College and CBC Terrace. This collection of books showcases the diversity of our Old Boy community. We would love to receive donations from our Old Boys who have either edited, authored or illustrated a book. Each book donated to the TOBA Library will receive recognition and a brief review in the Trinity News magazine.

For further information, please contact Diane Millar in the TOBA Office on 9219 1132 or toba@trinity.wa.edu.au

Thank You

TOBA sincerely thanks Raymond Frederick Lowe (’64) for kindly donating his book to the TOBA Library with a personal inscription: Presented to the TOBA Library in acknowledgment of the education received at CBC Perth/Trinity College 1955–1964.

My Nyul Nyul Heritage

FOREWORD:

Before my wife asked me to write the story of her grandparents George and Maggie Kelly, I had a sketchy knowledge about them and the family. This had been gleaned from what my mother-in-law had told me, what other family members had related and from having chatted with both George and Maggie when they were alive. What I didn’t know was the richness of their story, their contribution to family, to society and to the communities in which they lived. Nor was I aware of the very fact of their part in history in the Kimberley and the Pilbara regions of Western Australia, how the coming of white settlement, the pastoralists, the miners, government legislation and control as well as the role of the church, would impact upon them as members of the Indigenous people, the traditional custodians of the land. The Japanese attacks in the north of Australia would also have a huge effect. The commencement of the mining boom in the Pilbara in the 1960s would all become part of this story. This story in fact, is one that many people from the Kimberley would find familiar.

Fortunately for me, well-kept government and church records of the family have helped fill in bits and pieces of their story.

In addition, the accompanying bibliography is an indication of the scholarship relating to the region, already completed. Not least of all the ability to walk the land and breathe in its spirit is a lasting inspiration.

Ray Lowe (‘64)