Books and Television of Palmer River and Palmerville

Palmer River, Palmerville, Maytown and the Gold rush have had numerous mentions in history.  There is a number of books and Television Series and documentaries that have been filmed on Palmerville Station. This page is dedicated as a place to share different publications and clips. 

With over 20 books, 7 recent TV shows, and a three year epic of filming Season 7, 8 and 9 of Aussie Gold Hunters. 

There is also numerous youtube channels dedicated to gold fossicking and 4 Wheel Driving along the station and "The Old Coach Road. 

The Australian produced "Aussie Gold Hunters" created by Electric Pictures is broadcast globally on Discovery Channel and various other streaming platforms. Jacqui and Andy have featured on Palmerville Station. Jump onto the Electric Pictures web site to learn more.

 

 

 

The global television series Gold Rush and the offshoot series of Parkers Trails have filmed on the Palmer River and with the iconic Fitzgerald Family. Below is a series of clips and episodes featuring Palmerville Station, The Palmer River, The Fitzgeralds mining operations and the Historic Maytown Ruins. 

The full episodes are available on various streaming platforms.

Season 7, Season 8 and Season 9 filmed on location at Palmerville Station

Jacqui and Andy - Palmerville's local celebrities

 

The Team from All 4 Adventure visit Palmerville Station in the K'Gari to Gold Season. 

More shorts and links will be made available as aired on TV. 

visit the All 4 Adventure web site for more details

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The Team at Off the Grid - Coming Soon

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Aboriginal History - Dreamtime - Palmer River - Western Yalanji - Gold Rush - Stolen Generation - Modern History

Doris was shot trying to save her brother from a massacre. The bullet scar ran from her hip to her toes, truth-telling inquiry hears

 

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Warning: This story contains photos of First Nations people who have since passed. This story includes details about removal from country and family, violence and racism which may be distressing to some readers.

Doris Maytown's bullet scar ran from her hip to her toes. 

At four years old, in the early 1930s, she was shot trying to save her little brother. 

He was killed as well as their mother in a massacre at Palmer River in Far North Queensland. 

Wounded, Doris was made to walk in chains for days from Maytown to Cooktown north of Cairns and was put on a mission boat to Yarrabah. 

A black and white image of a woman.
Aunty Flo Watson speaks about her mum being shot while trying to save her brother

Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930

By the 1870s several bech-de-mer fishing operations were based on Green and Fitzroy Islands but with the discovery of gold at Palmer River in 1872 and then the Hodgkinson River goldfields Cairns was identified as a popular port in 1876 and the township grew; and with it violent dispersals between new settlers and Aboriginal groups.

In 1897 the Queensland Government implemented the ‘Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of Sale of Opium Act to ‘protect and control’ our people.

Members from Aboriginal groups across Queensland were displaced from their traditional lands and relocated into the Yarrabah Mission. People came from Daintree River, Cairns, Fraser Island, Cloncurry, Coen, Maytown, Lockhart River, Aurukun, Kowanyaa and the South Sea Islands.

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Famous Yalanji People 

Cathy Freeman

Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born 16 February 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event.[2] Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics.[3] She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she had lit the Olympic Flame.[4]

Freeman was the first Indigenous Australian person to become a Commonwealth Games gold medalist at age 16 in 1990.[5] The year 1994 was her breakthrough season. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Championships in the 400 m event. In 1998, Freeman took a break from running due to injury. She returned from injury in form with a first-place finish in the 400 m at the 1999 World Championships. She announced her retirement from athletics in 2003.

In 2007, she founded the Cathy Freeman Foundation, which changed names twice (to Community Spirit Foundation[6] and later to Murrup[7]). She is of the Kuku-yalanji and Birri-gubba peoples.[8]

Jessica Mauboy

Jessica Hilda Mauboy[6] was born on 4 August 1989 and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory.[7] Her father, Ferdy, is an Indonesian-born electrician from West Timor.[8][9] Her mother, Therese, is an Aboriginal Australian woman[9][10][11][12] of the Kuku Yalanji people, whose traditional lands are the rainforest regions of Far North Queensland.[13][14][15] Mauboy has three older sisters, Sandra, Jenny and Catherine; and a younger sister, Sophia.[8] From an early age, she was involved in the local church choir with her grandmother Harriett.[11][16][17] Her home was described as the "noisiest house on the block", with her mother often singing, her father playing guitar and the rest of the family displaying their passion for music.[11]

She attended Wulagi Primary School and Sanderson High School in Darwin.[18][19] She dropped out of school in year 11 to pursue her passion for music.[8]

At age fourteen, Mauboy's talents were exposed through the Telstra Road to Tamworth competition at the 2004 Tamworth Country Music Festival in Tamworth, New South Wales.[20] As the first winner of the competition, she travelled to Sydney to perform[11] and scored a recording deal with Sony Music Australia.[7] She released a country-inspired rendition of the Cyndi Lauper hit "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".[7] A video of the song was produced and released,[21] but the song was unsuccessful and Mauboy returned to Darwin.[7]

Western Yalanji Videos

Modern History of Palmerville 

The modern history of Palmerville pales in comparison to the ancient history and gold rush history, but has found its way into modern folk law regarding the stories about the previous owners of Pamerville Station and the court cases surrounding those events. Here is a collection of links and books and podcasts that we are aware of. Palmerville believes it is important to acknowledge those events as we have acknowledged those above.

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