Making a point with a hand gesture is a former Northern Territory ALP Leader of the Opposition , Jon Isaacs, a champion city of Sydney debater, whose lawyer father was closely involved with author Xavier Herbert who won the 1938 Sesqui -Centenary Award for literature with his novel, Capricornia, about the NT. He also wrote the epic Poor Fellow My Country, another award winner .
The photograph , taken in the l980s, surfaced recently during the sorting out of Little Darwin's files.The person on the left is veteran journalist and author Duncan Graham , awarded a Walkley and a Human Rights Award , who has reported extensively on Indonesia .
Also unearthed during the massive cull was a file relating to veteran newspaper photographer , Ray Sharpe , which included his encounter with an inquisitive monkey that clambered over him and his camera on a yacht in Darwin Harbour .
Ray famously said you have not lived until you experience a monkey sticking its fingers up your nostrils.
His file contains a shot of him in Darwin Hospital- injured during a flight in a wardrobe during Cyclone Tracy- which saw him evacuated to Sydney for medical treatment .
