Talk:John Newfong

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I confirm that Johnny Newfong went to Wynnum State High School in the early 1960's as I did. He was in a senior year to me but I chatted with him on the train to and from school occasionally. He was already showing signs of being an exceptionally lucid and charming conversationalist. To meet Johnny made a mockery of the stupidity, paternalism, and injustice of Queensland's policies then towards Aboriginal people. He made the authorities such as Bjelke -Petersen look like the lesser ignorant fools that they were. I always wondered where he went to as I "escaped" Queensland in 1968. I was very sad when I heard he had died but proud of him when I read of his reported activism. I would have love to have heard his eloquent speeches.

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