Tag: biraban

Hunter Living Histories May 2025 Showcase – 200 Years Threlkeld’s Arrival in Newcastle & OPUS Student Magazine Reunion (1954-Present)

April 28, 2025

  Join us for the University Library’s Hunter Living Histories May 2025 Showcase. All Welcome. This month featuring the 200 Years since the Reverend Threlkeld’s arrival in Newcastle & OPUS Student Magazine Reunion (1954-Present) WHERE: via (ZOOM link HERE) or in person Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (Type Room no. into ONLINE MAP) WHEN: … More Hunter Living Histories May 2025 Showcase – 200 Years Threlkeld’s Arrival in Newcastle & OPUS Student Magazine Reunion (1954-Present)

Title Page of Forget-Me-Not Remembering Lost Lives and Legacies W.S. Procter & The 1841 Procter Chart. An Analytical Examination of the Production of the First Navigational Chart of Reid's Mistake, Lake Macquarie with Reference to Reverend L.E. Threlkeld & Others. Researched & Written By Shane Frost. April 2023.

Remembering Lost Lives & Legacies: W. S. Procter and the 1841 Procter Chart

May 28, 2024

DOWNLOAD AND READ W.S. PROCTER AND THE 1841 PROCTER CHART BY SHANE FROST (58MB PDF) First Navigational Chart of Lake Macquarie The Procter Chart is the first navigational chart of “Reid’s Mistake”, a.k.a. Lake Macquarie, New South Wales produced in 1841. It has fascinated researchers attempting to understand and unlock its annotations and references to … More Remembering Lost Lives & Legacies: W. S. Procter and the 1841 Procter Chart

Magill [picture] / [Richard Browne] [ca. 1819] Courtesy of the National Library of Australia.

Biraban – A Warrior, Not A Servant.

February 22, 2024

Biraban – A Warrior, Not A Servant by Leigh Budden   Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Peoples:  This paper contains reference to cultural practices surrounding male initiation – but does not provide secret details about these ceremonies.  It also contains the names of Aboriginal People who are deceased. The author pays respect to … More Biraban – A Warrior, Not A Servant.

Yirannali (Photographed by Gionni Di Gravio 18 September 2020)

Yirannali (Yi-ran-na-li) “sort of sacred place near Newcastle on the sea-beach, beneath a high cliff”

June 29, 2023

This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land. YIRANNALI Yirannali is the First Nations Aboriginal name of the cliffs and beach shore areas of South Newcastle Beach, New South Wales (Australia). Where Does The Word ‘Yirannali’ Come From? https://www.dermandar.com/p/bIASLD The primary historical source on … More Yirannali (Yi-ran-na-li) “sort of sacred place near Newcastle on the sea-beach, beneath a high cliff”

Biraban and Threlkeld: Finding the Third Space Title

Biraban and Threlkeld: Finding the Third Space Theatrical Release

June 16, 2022

ALL WELCOME You are invited to a special FREE NAIDOC week screening of Biraban and Threlkeld:  Finding the Third Space, the 17th and latest in the Stories of Our Town Film Series and the follow up to Fortress Newcastle. THE FILM Two years in the making, Biraban and Threlkeld:  Finding the Third Space tells the story of … More Biraban and Threlkeld: Finding the Third Space Theatrical Release

Image of Threlkeld and Biraban

The Lives & Language Work of Biraban and Threlkeld

February 21, 2022

This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land. The Lives and Works of Rev. Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and We-pohng Birabān (John M’Gill) Compiled as reference materials for the forthcoming 2022 Documentary Film on Birabān & Threlkeld through the Stories of Our Town Series.   … More The Lives & Language Work of Biraban and Threlkeld

Original portrait of Biraban

Reminiscences of Biraban or M’Gill and Patty by the Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld

February 14, 2020

  This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land.   The first story comes from Threlkeld, L. E. (Lancelot Edward), 1788-1859. A key to the structure of the Aboriginal language : being an analysis of the particles used as affixes, to form the various … More Reminiscences of Biraban or M’Gill and Patty by the Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld

Dr Jim Wafer – On the Hunter River – Lake Macquarie language.

July 2, 2011

Dr Jim Wafer is a member of the Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application (ELDTA) group at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and has worked with Australian Aboriginal languages for the past 35 years. He is currently collaborating with Professor Hilary Carey on an edition of Lancelot Threlkeld’s translations into the Hunter River-Lake Macquarie language. … More Dr Jim Wafer – On the Hunter River – Lake Macquarie language.