
A Naaguja-Style Opera
Premieres at Queens Park Theatre
16th October 2025
Based on the 1854 Murla-na Bula Wula Bulangul
massacre at Pelican Spring
Thunbiji - the Naaguja word for ceremony
On June 6, 2024, at a site on the Greenough River just south of Geraldton, a ceremony took place marking the 170th anniversary of the massacre at Pelican Springs. Theona Councillor, descendant of the Naaguja people murdered on this day, invited members of her own family to attend, and extended the invitation to the descendants of the settlers involved in the massacre.