Stan Grant (other)
Stan Grant may refer to: *Stan Grant (journalist) (born 1963), Australian journalist *Stan Grant (Wiradjuri elder) (born 1940), elder of the Wiradjuri tribe of Indigenous Australians See also *Stanley Grant Stanley Grant (1902–1993) was a British cinematographer and special effects expert. During the 1930s he worked mainly on quota quickies. In the 1940s he was employed on more prestigious films such as David Lean's ''Oliver Twist''.Phillips p. ...

Stan Grant (journalist)
Stan Grant (born 30 September 1963) is an Australian journalist, writer and radio and television presenter, since the 1990s. He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity. He is a Wiradjuri man. Early years Grant was born on 30 September 1963 in Griffith, New South Wales, the son of Stan Grant Sr, an elder of the Wiradjuri people and Betty Grant (nee Cameron), born near Coonabarabran, the daughter of a white woman and an Kamilaroi Aboriginal man. The Wiradjuri are an Aboriginal Australian people from the south-west inland region of New South Wales. He spent much of his childhood in inner Victoria where the Wiradjuri also have roots. Career Journalism Grant has more than 30 years of experience working in broadcast radio and television news and current affairs. He spent several years as a news presenter on the Australian Macquarie Radio Network, Seven, SBS, along with a long-term stint at CNN International as a Senior International Correspondent ...
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Stan Grant (Wiradjuri Elder)
Stanley Vernard Grant Sr (born 1940)Michelle InnisNew York Times 8 April 2016. AM is an elder of the Wiradjuri tribe of Indigenous Australians from what is now the south-west inland region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Stan Grant Sr is of Aboriginal ancestry. The grandson of an elder who was gaoled for speaking his own language, he now teaches the Wiradjuri language to students. Background and language work Grant was at one time a saw miller, losing the tips of three fingers in industrial accidents. Grant is one of the few people still living to have heard native speakers of his tribe's Wiradjuri language, having been brought up as a child around native speakers of his grandfather's generation, notably his grandfather, Wilfred Johnson. Johnson was arrested in the late 1940s after a policeman overheard him calling to his son in Wiradjuri - it was forbidden to use Aboriginal languages in public - and he was detained overnight in a cell. From that day on, his grand ...
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