About this site
This website is the work of three people working together:
Pia Solberg, a Norwegian citizen now resident in
Sydney, a former photojournalist working for VG, one of Scandinavia’s largest daily newspapers, has taken most of the pictures. Pia is now a Ph.D. student working on a comparative study of Indigenous development in Australia and Norway. She has recently spent several weeks working as a photographer in the Sami newspaper Min Áigi, located in Kárášjohka, the Indigenous capital of Sápmi, in Norway.
Pia can be contacted at webmaster@murrinbridgeweb.com
Günter Minnerup, a German citizen now resident in Sydney, teaches (European) history at the University of New South Wales and has written most of the text of this website and also contributed some photos. Günter, who is a keen explorer of the Australian outback in his Suzuki 4WD and regards Lake Mungo National Park as his second home, also takes a strong interest in Aboriginal culture and is an enthusiastic consumer of the Murrin Bridge shiraz.
Günter can be contacted at webmaster@murrinbridgeweb.com
Craig Cromelin, a proud descendant of the Ngiyampaa people, a former cotton picker, carpenter, welder and "jack of all trades", now business manager of Murrin Bridge Wines and chairman of the Murrin Bridge Aboriginal Advancement Corporation, the Murrin Bridge Local and the Wiradjuri Regional Land Councils, Aboriginal artist and fanatical Rabbitohs supporter, has contributed his artwork, photography (for example, the youth training picture in the top right corner of each page), and local knowledge - without which this website would never have been possible.
Craig can be contacted at webmaster@murrinbridgeweb.com
The purpose of this website is threefold:
To portray the Aboriginal community of Murrin Bridge, record its history, and support its aspirations and activities.
To portray and support, along with Murrin Bridge, other Aboriginal communities in New South Wales.
To promote tourism in Outback NSW, especially the kind of tourism that acknowledges the Aboriginal heritage of the state, makes a contribution to the social and economic development of Aboriginal communities, and respects the natural environment upon which both black and white Australians depend.
Please contact us if you would like your community or your business to be included in Murrin Bridge Web or feel you could contribute to these pages in some other way.
Copyright:
No material contained in this website may be reproduced without permission. Such permission will be freely given for non-commercial purposes but commercial copyright to both pictures and texts remains with the photographers and authors.