Feature Biography
Boori Monty Pryor (1950?)
PUBLICATION: Boori (Monty) Pryor with Meme McDonald, Maybe Tomorrow, Penguin Book, 1998, Melbourne
SEX: Male
BIRTH DATE: 1950
BIRTH PLACE: Townsville
FIRST LANGUAGE: English
SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES:
Townsville: Boori grew up in Garbutt, a poor suburb of Townsville on the east coast of Queensland. (p.77) He notes that the area was once owned by the Wulgurukabba people, but was first in Queensland to be depopulated by colonists. (p.81)
Garbutt was established after the Department...
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