Later in the year at Geraldton’s Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in October 2024 the story of the Greenough massacre continued to unfold. A three-person panel convened at the Queens Park Theatre: Theona Councillor, Bruce Denny and George Criddle presented to the community the outline of a project aimed...

Start here…There is a pencil.There is a sheet of paper.They meet.A line starts to be drawn, a line in the early stages of a circle. The beginning of this circle creates a distinction of possibilities of inside the circle and outside

Wayne Freer, musician, was hired to work with Theona to put musical backing to the melodies she created for the telling of the story. Wayne was impressed by the strength of the material and intrigued by the mysterious process that led to the genesis of the project.

Present for the reading were members of Theona’s family including siblings Derek Councillor and Nikki Councillor and Cousin Peta Thompson. Representing the youth were Esther Bullen and Tom Jenkins. Theona’s collaborator and co-producer, George Criddle arrived from Melbourne for the week. George along with Amanda Rowland, were there as representative...

We are a week away from the second Creative Development weekend to be held in Geraldton on 24-28 February and I have been following up on information learned about the players involved in the project.

In 2010 Melbourne-based Aboriginal activist Gary Foley advised settlers that if they really wanted to help Aboriginal people in their fight for social change, then they should start by educating themselves by looking for prejudice in their own homes.