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Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’S Yooreel’S Balbuk Fanny Of | Whadjuk Ballardong Elder Ballardong Whadjuk | Yarran Glenys mixed with the white people. white the with mixed to know she was a strong old lady who who lady old strong a was she know to is her country, this is her land. I’m proud proud I’m land. her is this country, her is knowledge. She grew up knowing this this knowing up grew She knowledge. She was a strong lady who had had who lady strong a was She Resistance Fighter Resistance Realising a Perth Perth a Realising WESTERN AUSTRALIA WESTERN rust T nal io t a N Balbuk Yooreel Balbuk National Trust of Western Australia Western of Trust National Fanny Fanny PUBLISHED BY PUBLISHED Gina Pickering and Leanne Brass Leanne and Pickering Gina AUTHORS guidance and advice. and guidance Irene Stainton, Marie Taylor, Diane Yappo for their cultural cultural their for Yappo Diane Taylor, Marie Stainton, Irene SPECIAL THANKS TO THANKS SPECIAL names of people who have passed away. passed have who people of names ‘Welshpool Native Reserve’ (State Library of Western Australia MN773 BA 1423 149) 1423 BA MN773 Australia Western of Library (State Reserve’ Native ‘Welshpool brochure contains historical photos, images, references or or references images, photos, historical contains brochure , the the , Maamba at life her of years last the spent Yooreel Balbuk Fanny BELOW: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers that this this that readers Islander Strait Torres and Aboriginal Australia in partnership with the City of Perth. of City the with partnership in Australia The National Trust of Western Australia would like to advise advise to like would Australia Western of Trust National The the History of Emotions and the National Trust of Western Western of Trust National the and Emotions of History the CULTURAL WARNING CULTURAL Department of Aboriginal Affairs, ARC Centre of Excellence for for Excellence of Centre ARC Affairs, Aboriginal of Department The information in this map was compiled through the the through compiled was map this in information The Perth’s most important and uncelebrated Whadjuk woman. Whadjuk uncelebrated and important most Perth’s research to mark the 110th anniversary of the death of arguably arguably of death the of anniversary 110th the mark to research this map provides an experience informed by newly compiled compiled newly by informed experience an provides map this Guided by Whadjuk Elder women and their extended families, families, extended their and women Elder Whadjuk by Guided homelands as colonial Perth developed. developed. Perth colonial as homelands about her country and ‘raged and stormed’ through her her through stormed’ and ‘raged and country her about in the 19th century, Fanny Balbuk Yooreel was passionate passionate was Yooreel Balbuk Fanny century, 19th the in A Whadjuk woman who experienced colonisation first-hand first-hand colonisation experienced who woman Whadjuk A ways. new in city unique this to connect and landscape Walk the path of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel through the Perth Perth the through Yooreel Balbuk Fanny of path the Walk Resistance Fighter Resistance | Whadjuk Yued Elder Yued Whadjuk | Port-Louis Beverley when it happened especially here in Perth. in here especially happened it when Perth a Realising development of colonisation in this country country this in colonisation of development Fanny Balbuk Yooreel: Yooreel: Balbuk Fanny She wasn’t frightened to tackle the the tackle to frightened wasn’t She Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s extraordinary life awakens new ways of understanding Perth. Born around 1840, she is deeply connected to the Perth’s original families. ABOVE: Perth Railway Station, 1881 (City of Perth History Centre Collection) Granddaughter to ABOVE: Bon Ton Cafés (The Cyclopedia of Western Australia) Whadjuk Mooro leader 1 Perth Railway Station Yellagonga and niece of 3 warrior Yagan, Fanny Perth Railway Station, built in 1881, was constructed over Bon Ton Café Balbuk Yooreel had wetlands that were a key source of food collected by Fanny Irish-born Daisy Bates, working as a journalist and self-trained community connections on both sides of the Balbuk Yooreel. Known to the colonists as Lake Kingsford, the anthropologist in Perth in the early 20th century, met Fanny Derbarl Yerrigan/Swan River. Her knowledge of area was drained in the 1840s as part of a broader policy to and began recording her knowledge of Noongar cultural Whadjuk country, recorded by Daisy Bates in the alleviate flooding in the colony and as part of ongoing places and language. Daisy took tea with Fanny at the early 1900s, informed the Noongar Native Title expansion and development. This is where Fanny gathered Bon Ton Café during one of their walks through the city. claim of 2006, where it was upheld that Native eggs and caught turtles and jilgies (freshwater crayfish). The ‘Dome’ of its day, the Bon Ton Café had five premises: Title rights existed in the Perth metropolitan area. Further south along St Georges Terrace she gathered the fruit of 580 Hay Street (the original café), nos. 4 and 104 William Street the zamia palm, which needed careful preparation to remove and 109 Barrack Street. Daisy recounts that she asked Fanny to toxins. Noongar women sustained their families by gathering stop for tea during a city walk and that Fanny responded: Getting to know this passionate Whadjuk yorga (woman) is and preparing these foods and Fanny Balbuk Yooreel not easy. Details of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s life are often ‘Nobody will let Balbuk come inside their white mias’ maintained her traditional rights in the midst of great change. revealed by others within a context of conflicting priority Fanny Balbuk Yooreel and perspective. Colonisation descended onto her country, RIGHT: Liddelow Butcher, 1880s Western Mail, Thursday 18 April, 1935, page 9 (City of Perth History Centre took the lives of her extended family and disenfranchised Collection) They did take tea at the Bon Ton Café and two plates of her community. cakes were consumed. She lived through a time described as the most ‘wretched 2 Liddelow RIGHT: Balbuk’s Country…Heirisson chapter in the history of black-white relations in WA history’. Island Looking East by Elizabeth Her legacy as a Perth resistance fighter can be traced through Butcher Humphreys (WA Inspired Art Quilters) her commitment to the environment, sourcing traditional There are many newspaper 4 foods from the landscape, her family and friendships. In the accounts and court records City of face of relentless building and expansion she demanded her of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s Perth Library right of access to these places throughout her life. arrests for disorderly behaviour. She was fined or imprisoned She raged and stormed at the usurping of her beloved home for her ‘offences.’ On one occasion Fanny asserts that WA Inspired Art Quilters ground…Through fences and over them, Balbuk took the Mr Liddelow, her employer, would pay her fine. created a range of superb quilts to recognise Whadjuk straight track to the end. When a house was built in the ‘Please allow me till twelve o’clock to get the fine. activist Fanny Balbuk Yooreel. way, she broke its fence-palings with her digging stick and My master Mr Liddelow will pay it.’ Fanny Balbuk Yooreel The works represent aspects charged up the steps and through the rooms. West Australian, Wednesday 27 May, 1885, page 3 of Perth that we know and that Fanny in all-likelihood Daisy Bates, 1938 Liddelow Butcher was established by John Liddelow on experienced. The quilts also include references to historic The owners…themselves were in awe of the fierce-eyed the corner of Barrack and Murray Streets. He also had a maps, records and locations. They depict riverscapes around woman who told them they were on her home ground and slaughterhouse on the banks of the Canning River, not far Matagarup (Heirisson Island), flora and fauna, including bush that it was her own road. from the location of Maamba, the ‘Welshpool Native Reserve,’ tucker, an 1835 map of the Swan River and the muddy route Daisy Bates, Western Mail, Thursday 18 April, 1935, page 9 where Fanny was living in the early 1900s. across Matagarup used for eons by Noongar people. ABOVE: 57 Murray St (G Bickford, Dessein) ABOVE: Government House viewed from St Georges Terrace, 1862 ABOVE: The Terrace Hotel on St George’s Terrace is the former Bishop’s Grove (State Library of Western Australia 6293B.48) (G Pickering, National Trust of Western Australia) 5 57 Murray St 7 Government House 8 Bishop’s Grove 57 Murray Street was built in 1912 for the Public Health and Medical Department as a centre for government The devastation and changes to Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s The western end of Perth’s bureaucracy, policy and innovation. traditional landscape had great personal impact. Members central business district is of her family are buried close to prominent Perth landmarks linked to the resting place From this building the Chief Protector of Aborigines controlled along St Georges Terrace. Her great grandmother, of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel’s the lives of Aboriginal people throughout Western Australia. Moojurngul, is buried in the grounds of Government House grandmother, Yabben. A skull The death and legacy of Fanny Balbuk’s son, Joe Donnelly, in which is also registered as an Aboriginal site. Fanny would yellowed with age was Onslow in 1925, was dealt with by this office. protest at the gates of Government House, cursing those discovered during building A copy of a letter Fanny wrote to him begins ‘Dear Son, I’m glad within while a substantial fence kept her out. works in the vicinity in 1938. to know that you got my letter at last and to know you are alive One of her favourite annoyances was to stand at the RIGHT: News article (Daily News, and well’ but she despairs that ‘All our people are dead.’ 14 October 1938) gates of Government House, reviling all who dwelt within, because the stone gates guarded by a sentry enclosed her ‘Judging by its age and 6 Colonial Hospital, Perth grandmother’s burial ground.
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