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Gladys Kennedy is a Gamilaraay woman born at Walgett in 1926 and grew up in Walgett. "I was apprenticed out to a station called Narran Point when I was fourteen. I worked there for about three years - I had to stay there and work hard for little money - about 10 bob a week pocket money, which we could spend when they brought us into town every month. I came back and me and my brother got jobs at Dungalear Station. I was working there in the house. I was there for about two years. I got about 5 pounds a week then. We got our stores from the store they had there on the station. It was a big station with lots of Aboriginal people living and working there - most of them my family. Then I got with my husband Norm "Tracker" Walford and we had two girls and four boys. My husband passed away in 1982. I've got so many grandchildren and great grandchildren I've lost count. I like to bet on the horses and have a day out noodling for opal at the Grawin dumps, and I'm happy to spend time with the Dharriwaa Elders".
Tim Creighton was born in 7 Carolyn St Redfern in 1938 and brought up in Moree. "I could be considered an Eora man because of where I was born, but if you take it from your mother that's the part of the story that I don't know. I think she was born in Gunnedah, which would make her and me Gamilaraay". Tim has lived in Walgett for the last fifteen years after marrying local woman Mary Creighton. Tim has worked as a shearer, co-ordinator of the Walgett CDEP and Walgett LALC and has managed the Sylvania Heights Aboriginal Hostel. He been elected to positions of Vice-Chair of the original Gamilaroi Goondi Community Working Party and he is now Chair of the River Towns Program. Tim appeared in the film "Against the Wind" in 1986. He is now a full-time carer for his wife, and a part-time opal miner. Tim has six children and has reared a total of 11 children. He can't count how many grandchildren and great-grandchildren he has now. Tim enjoys playing bowls, golf and mucking around the opal fields.
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