Empty Daybook – Gordon Hookey on 2 August 1978

On the second day of August 1978, 3:30pm, at the Cloncurry Merry Muster Rodeo: in Roy Bell’s traveling boxing tent, a small Aboriginal man named Grub climbed into the boxing ring to fight a giant pugilist. Everyone thought Grub would be pulverized. With courage, skill, speed, guile, determination, and self-belief, Grub emerged victorious after three … Continue reading Empty Daybook – Gordon Hookey on 2 August 1978