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- George Debney (1818 – 15 May 1897) was an early settler of South Australia, a cabinetmaker whose shop became Gay's Arcade and part of Adelaide Arcade.
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George Debney (1818 – 15 May 1897) was an early settler of South Australia, a cabinetmaker whose shop became Gay's Arcade and part of Adelaide Arcade .
- Harrowing Decades of War
- Frontier Warfare and Vengeance Parties
- The Debney Peace Settlement
- ‘Alice’s Books’: A Rich Ethnographic Source
- ‘Twice-Born’
- Frontier Denialism
- The Peace Ceremony in Detail
- Treaties and Sovereignty
- Visiting Mooraberrie, and Mithaka Country
In May 1889, after more than two decades of brutal conflict on the Queensland frontier, a five-day peace ceremony was performed on Mithaka Country. It was orchestrated by the Mithaka as part of a traditional regional gathering for initiation ceremonies and drew 500 Aboriginal people from across the Channel Country as well as from the Barcoo and War...
George Leonard Debney(1843–1908) was a tall, bearded man with blue eyes, personal charisma and a dignified bearing. He arrived in the Channel Country about a decade after Patsy Durack and John Costello had established their stations on Cooper Creek. When Debney became managing partner of Monkira Station on the Diamantina in 1879, he already had exp...
In May 1888, Senior Inspector Little wrote from Eyre Creek to the commissioner justifying his job on the remote edge of settlement and confirming the Native Mounted Police were “still very much required out here”. He argued that Inspector Little died suddenly of “sunstroke” or “heat apoplexy” in Birdsville in January 1889. But, according to local o...
I was 14 when I came across one of “Alice’s books” in a library. The dusty volume was sitting unobtrusively on a shelf of “Australiana”, but it looked different to its companions and immediately attracted me. Even its title was mysterious: Where Strange Paths Go Down. The book described happy childhood memories of warmth and companionship with Abor...
Alice’s Mithaka teachers regarded her as “twice-born”. At the age of two, she had survived an accident while crossing the flooded Bulloo River with her father and two Mithaka stockmen. The stockmen, Wooragai (Chookie) and Bogie, struggled to get the buggy and horses (one of which was badly injured) onto dry land before lighting a small fire and beg...
In 2018, the commissioned historians of the Barcoo Shire – in a book entitled Their Promised Land– dismissed Alice’s evidence because she was “only a child or a very young woman” when she had her Mithaka education, and added that Aboriginal people were not in any case capable of the kind of defence of Country that Duncan-Kemp described. This is Aus...
In a chapter that occupies ten pages of Our Channel Country, Alice describes The Debney Peace: Although the pastoralists named the peace after one of their own, it was chiefly orchestrated by First Nations peoples. Alice records the name of the ceremony as “Mulka-mukana, the vow of peace and the seal of goodwill”. Linguist David Nash believes that ...
The idea of Treatygoes to the heart of the moral and legal anxieties that underlie the Australian nation. The Debney Peace was not explicitly about sovereignty, or even about land, although its location did recognise and consolidate a specific area of neutrality and safety. It was an unadvertised peace in an undeclared war. The peace was an act of ...
I first visited Mooraberrie in 2000 and again in 2009, soon after the Kidman pastoral company acquired the property from the Duncans and before the Native Title determination for the Mithaka people in 2015. I was moved to finally see this landscape about which Alice had written so passionately, but I had to look at it out of the corner of my eye. E...
George Debney (1818 – 15 May 1897) was an early settler of South Australia, a cabinetmaker whose shop became Gay's Arcade and part of Adelaide Arcade. Debney of Whitechapel, London, with his parents Robert and Margaretta Debney, née Rennie, and their small family emigrated to South Australia aboard Lloyds, arriving in Adelaide in
Brief Life History of George. When George Debney was born in July 1769, in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Debney, was 43 and his mother, Mary Turner, was 34. He married Mary Bush on 14 October 1794. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
- Male
- Mary Bush
George Leonard Debney: Born: 27 January, 1843 South Australia, Australia. Died: 1 September, 1908 (aged 65) Bowen, Queensland, Australia. Cause of Death: influenza. Occupation * explorer (1870-1882) South Australia, Australia
George Debney Department of Mathematics. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 (Received 15 February 1974) Starting with the general Kerr-Schild form of the metric tensor, ds2=1/+1 ® I (where I is null and
History. The property on which the Arcade was built was the scene of two disastrous fires: the first was George Debney 's fine furniture factory and showrooms at 103–105 Rundle Street (parts of Section 84 and 85), which was destroyed, along with a great deal of stock and raw material, on the evening of 16 July 1855.
