Paddy Roe (1912 (estimate) – 2001), also known as Lulu was an Aboriginal Elder of the Goolarabooloo tribe (also spelt ''Gularabulu'') of the

Nyigina The Nyikina people (also spelt Nyigina and Nyikena, and listed as Njikena by Tindale) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. They come from the lower Fitzroy River (which they call ''mardoowarra''). ...

(also spelt ''Nyikina'', and listed as ''Njikena'' by Tindale) ethnic group in

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. He was an author who won the Western Australian Week Literary Award in 1985, and was short-listed for the National Book Council Award in 1983, and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award in 1985. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the

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for "service to Aboriginal welfare". He has collaborated on works such as '' Gularabulu, Stories from the West Kimberley'' and others. Paddy Roe was born, and grew up on

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, near Broome. He worked as a drover and also a windmill repairer around the Kimberley. Roe established th
Lurujarri Heritage Trail
in 1987 and the Lurujarri Heritage Trail is part of the Heritage Trails Network, a project for community participation originally devised by the Western Australian Heritage Committee (now known as the Heritage Council of Western Australia) in commemoration of the 1988 Bicentenary.

Works

*''Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley'', Stephen Muecke (editor), Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1983, *"Paddy Roe: Storyteller", by Paddy Roe, in ''Aboriginal Voices: Contemporary Aboriginal artists, writers and performers'', compiled by Liz Thompson

References

1910s births 2001 deaths Indigenous Australian writers Indigenous Australians from Western Australia Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia People from the Kimberley (Western Australia) {{IndigenousAustralia-stub