Peggy Patrick - a senior aboriginal elder and cultural custodian with Doctor Mary Fortune
Peggy wrote ‘Fire Fire Burning Bright’, a true story of brutality, racism and murder. The story goes, a group of around 12 aboriginal men, including Peggy’s father, were falsely accused of stealing a cow. They were chained and frog marched to a remote cattle station. The men were forced to chop wood in preparation for their own funeral pyre. They were poisoned with strychnine, and then bludgeoned and shot at close range. Their half dead bodies then thrown on the blazing pyre