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Name the new Transperth ferry after a Nyungar womyn

Hello lovely folk,

A friend of mine has suggested the new Transperth ferry should be named after Fanny Balbuk. Fanny Balbuk was a Nyungar woman who resisted efforts to marginalise the local people.
I think it is about time a local icon like the ferry was named after a Nyungar person, after all, the Swan River IS Nyungar land.

If you would like to help us out with this, please click on the following link and submit "Fanny Balbuk" as your vote for the new ferry name by Monday 16th March 2009.

http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/Helpnam ... fault.aspx

With respect to the traditional owners of the Swan.


TAKEN FROM THE WA MUSEUM WEBSITE

Quote:
Fanny Balbuk, Born Heirisson Island 1840, died 1907.

Fanny Balbuk was a descendant of Yellagonga, and daughter of Doodyep and
Coondebung who celebrated their marriage with a corroboree near George
Fletcher Moore... Read More’s cottage in June 1833. Soon after, the
couple was near starvation.

Daisy Bates recorded her memories of Balbuk:

‘To the end of her life she raged and stormed at the usurping of her
beloved home ground . . . a straight track led to the place where once
she had gathered jilgies and vegetable food with the women, in the swamp
where Perth railway station now stands. Through fences and over them,
Balbuk took the straight track to the end. When a house was built in the
way, she broke its fence-palings with her digging stick and charged up
the steps and through the rooms.'

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