••I mi, there when they VSqV 

 •If — Aborigines, stock, Millions and 

 °vcrvllHn»-'- fhis was presumaMv In 

 1. Jcnressiou ol ifo 'nineties when 

 nni nv mortgages we.e foreclosed and 

 Z\W station *crc taken over hy the 

 nuance companies, 



fa Icll the Balra.iald district hn- 

 .|lv in SfepW I8P«, fe4Sl WW 

 kc p hack there since. Perhaps his 

 druvfllS Worb tell olT ss it>i the cxten- 

 s)0ns tl) the liuhviiss irttl the lakc- 

 , )vcr pi the stations. He left with 

 his mule. Sid WeblxT, Slid ISO/* 



"We eume to Mildura tiist. we 



worked .a Mikliini gulden. Ch.it- 



Icv Brothers. ,nid after the gardens 



we Med to go down into them 



stations, stock, shearing and one 



Ihirtg MB) another, working in Ihe 



woolsheds". 



He nlso earned some money .is a 

 ,noless.onal sideshow boxer. He had 

 ainlc a reputation as a hover, and for 

 I while was a member c-f a well- 

 known iroup Once he and Sid Web- 

 ber took the tram from Mildiini to 

 Wooinelaiig. 

 • and when we go lo Woomelang 

 on that line, we leave the line and 

 go south-west to Hopeuum 1 utlc 

 wotk in Hispetoun. come down to 

 place called Beiilah. gome towards 

 VVarracknaheal then We got WW* 

 here and ihcrc through formers and 

 that. I sentually M eotttl IttKf 

 •\niwerp ihhemver Moravian Mis 

 sum), anil met some ot out people 

 aiul children — mixed children they 

 were We staved there until we 

 come down to Hordcrlown and got 



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f, Mother said: 



nuuh rjndi ,/y.e<yV warHta^i weffuda 



not you Sto play long-way-off 



(imperatives) 

 Dnn'1 go and play B tag way oil. 



January. I9?1 



woik there. I left Sid Webber it 

 Hordeitown and came on to lin- 

 linaia, and I eventually conn- down 

 to lailem liend, Murrav Bridge 

 and all those places and come 

 nelil into these pails " 

 He joined up with Sid Webber 

 again and they decided lo try lor 

 work in Ihe Ren mark gardens. Thcv 

 went lirsl !o Adelaide to the •company 

 otlice" and then straight up to Ren- 

 mark where they worked lor two or 

 three years Sid Wehhcr left him and 

 he never saw' him again from Ren- 

 mark, lack Kong wen" (0 die south- 

 cast ot South Australia, f.r.sl to Point 

 Msl cuy and ihen 10 Point Pearec. 

 and never went hack to live in Vic- 

 iona. thoimh he iravclled up and 

 down the Murray as far as Boundary 

 Bend, before finally settling to live 

 at Point Pearec. After the Act of 

 I on he says that he had to live at 

 (he reserve, though "wc could still 

 come and go and didn't bother much, 

 never won icd much as long as WC 

 had something to do, and plenty food 

 and stuff". 



About forty years ago Peter Bon- 

 nev. M old childhood companion and 

 d.os.ng mate, stayed for some urac 

 at Point Pcarce, working on the dam 

 and in ihe stone quarry. ' >e, er Bon- 

 ney like Jack Long, could speak 

 Madimadi and Dad.id.idi. This was 

 the last time that Jack l-ong spoke 

 his own languages w.ih a native 

 speaker. 



Jack Long gave us the following 

 additional information on the Madi- 

 mndi language: 



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