FIVE Indigenous brothers Edgar, Arnold, Albert, Elliott and Eric Lockyer were among thousands of Aboriginal men who enlisted in WW2 in the hope of returning as equals to a country free of peril. Having grown up on Mallina Station near…
THE legendary Lockyer brothers of Port Hedland. Onslow-born stockman poet Thomas Gray. And Marble Bar shearer Sandy Jackson. This Anzac Day, StreetWise honours the memories and service of hundreds of Indigenous Diggers in the Pilbara who fought for and defended…
CHARLES Burns was a Wyndham orphan raised since age six by explorer Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and wife Grace. He was the first Aboriginal student to attend Guildford Grammar School. The family moved to Bridgetown in 1913, Charles working as a…
DRIVEWAYS at dawn. This year, thousands of Pilbara residents from Exmouth to Karratha and Port Hedland to Newman and Tom Price will honour Anzac Day - at the end of their driveways. Observing COVID-19 distancing, they will pause at first…
‘IMPS’, lumpers, the 1930s rise of fascism and the shooting of four Chinese seamen who went on strike in 1942 after seeking refuge in Fremantle from attacks by Japanese warships. History lovers are invited to attend the Fremantle History Society’s…
UNIONS played a vital role in building the social infrastructure Karratha needed after it was gazetted on August 8, 1969. Industrial chaos raged across the Pilbara. In the weeks leading up to the gazetting of the new townsite, thousands of…
OIL and gas giant Woodside discovered the North Rankin gas field about 135km northwest of Dampier just two years after Karratha was gazetted. The Goodwyn and Angel fields were discovered in 1972 and together, these resources formed the basis of…
STURT’S desert pea flowers from spring to summer, the flaming red floral emblem of South Australia named after British explorer Charles Sturt. In the Pilbara, the stunning black-eyed pea lines major highways and pastoral properties, the eye-catching species also described…
MURUJUGA is the traditional Aboriginal name for the Dampier Archipelago and Burrup Peninsula. It means, ‘hip bone sticking out’, in the Ngarluma Yaburara language. Acting on a request by Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, and described as, “a significant moment in the…
