Neville "Chappy" Williams is an elder of the Wiradjuri Nation, in Western New South Wales. Known as "Uncle Chappy" to those who follow indigenous Australian customs, he is a regular at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and a key opponent of the Barrick Gold Corporation's gold mine project at Lake Cowal.
Decades earlier, at the start of the 1960s, Williams, then in his early twenties, won renown as a young boxing hopeful whom a few sports columnists had singled out as a strong candidate for becoming the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Olympic Boxing team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo[citation needed]. Later in the decade he was featured on the Australian television boxing show TV Ringside.
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- [1] February 2005 report from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (published on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website) includes a quote from Uncle Chappy Williams
- [2] Report from corroboree for Lake Cowal, as Wiradjuri elders, Uncle Chappy Williams and Auntie Isabell Coe lead the protest
- [3] Photographs of Uncle Chappy at the "Save Lake Cowal" campaign website
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