Word has just come through that longtime activist , anthropologist Dr Bill Day , involved in Aboriginal land rights and other related issues in Darwin and Western Australia, died on Monday in Maylands, WA.
A teacher , he was the founder and editor in Darwin of Bunji, a newsletter from l971-l983, which covered land right battles by the Larrakia for Kulaluk, a Darwin seaside suburb , and other related issues .
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The above photograph shows Day and his Kiwi wife Polly drying out their possessions after Cyclone Tracy in l974. In 1994 the Aboriginal Studies Press published his book, Bunji: a story of the Gwalwa Daraniki Movement .
On moving to Western Australia , Day became a consulting anthropologist . His website contains an extensive list of issues and individuals with whom he had been involved .
