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p1	E dede kide yebem baty? Where were you born

p2	Darwin Darwin

p3	Darwin? Darwin?

p4	Ngudam wul, I came back,

p5	kinyi kana ngini tye. and lived here.

p6	Nganam fital Putkity kana ngagadi tye school nyin kana ngagadi tye. When I grew up I went over to Port Keats and went to school there.

p7	Ngudam wul pagu, After that I came back here,

p8	Melbourne kana ngagadi tye school. and I then went to school in Melbourne.

p9

E, Then,

p10	school ngerim waty, when I finished going to school,

p11	ngudam wul Peppiminarti wurrkama kana I went back to Peppiminarti and worked there

p12	ngagadi tye. for a while.

p13	Ngaganim wap, e nyinda wereyi ngayi mengindi, I lived there there, then my brother said to me,

p14	’Ba ngambani ngini ngan dede nayin’. 'Come on, let's go to our country'.'

p15	Ngagadi tye wuni mengindi ‘Ka kinda dede nayin kirri’ . So I went there, and he said to me 'This is our country'.

p16	E ngayi ngim kana, And I said,

p17	’Epe wembem etye ngini nayin nime kinyi?’. 'I wonder when will they build houses for us here'.

p18	'Kuguk' 'Be patient!'',

p19	mengindi, ‘Kuguk ngatypirr'. he said "Wait, that's a long way off'.

p20	Ngudam wul wunu pagu, I left from there and came back here,

p21	kinyi kana wurrkama ngagadi tye, and worked here a while,

p22	housing. on housing.

p23	I ngaganim pirr dede kinyi ngagadi tye Oolloo kana, Then after awhile I left this place and went to Oolloo

p24	stockman ngagadi tye. working as a stockman.

p25	E ngudam wul wunu pagu, And then I went back thataway,

p26	Elizabeth Downs. to Elizabeth Downs,

p27	Nyinda ngagadi wurrkama tye. and worked there a while.

p28	E ngudam wul pagu, kuri kana ngiring kuduk drunk ngim wakay. Then later I came back here and I started to drink and was a drunk for a while.

p29	Nyin nimbi wurrkama ngudam wul kinyi. Then I found work here again.

p30	Nyinda minda kide pefi ngagadi tye kana kinda ngirim dede kinda. I live here now and I have not left.

p31	Falmi ngeben derridu kinyi, I found a wife here

p32	wakay membirr kana. and now I have kids.

p33	How many kids did you have? Nick: How many kids did you have?

p34	Five. Five.

p35	Yedi warrakma, falmi fagarri. Three boys and two girls.

p36	Ba yu e Maningrida ngagadi tye kana. Oh yes, and then I went to Maningrida,

p37	One year nyinda, for one year,

p38	ngagadi wurrkama tye, working there,

p39	nursery. in a nursery.

p40	Dede yubu, It was a good place,

p41	dege kana, but in my heart,

p42	kide, dangingngi kada ngudam wul pagu you know how it is, I got homesick and so I came home,

p43	wakay. that was it.

p44	Minde kide ngagadi tye kana kinda. I don't go anywhere except here anymore,

p45	Detyengi kinyi, kinyi napa ngirim wakay. These days, I just live here.

p46	Minde dede ngaganim pirr kinyi. I dont leave for other places.

p47	Dede ngayi kinda. This is my home.

p48	Ngan school ngagadi tye nganam fital kinyi, dede kinda, This is the place where I grew up and went to school.

p49	Ngatyayi ngayi kalayi ngayi, And my father and my mother

p50	wurrkama wadde tye Police Station e kinyi e Batchelor. they worked at the police station here and at Batchelor.

p51	Gagu watypala afirr werrben derridu ngan crossing napa. Down at the crossing they once found a white fellow who had died.

p52	Ngan ngatya nyinyi wurrkama yedi wurrkama nyin deti yima, watracker? That was when your father was working there, as a tracker?

p53	Wa wunnimbi pagu yirrini tye pagu Elizabeth Downs. Gagu pigipigi werri He'd come over from Elizabeth Downs. He had a pig,

p54	e tyenga, yu gagu pigipigi. or some kind of animal, yeah I think it was a pig.

p55	E nem nyinnin, And that bloke,

p56	minde detyeri werri tye yedi tye, He didn't know,

p57	tyutyurr minmi. he had no idea how to swim.

p58	Wamumu kana wirrbene kay ngatyayi ngayi. The police came and sung out for my father.

p59	Nyinda wadde tye ekeyi kene yedi kinyi. And the two of them went, he and

p60	Tapala, my uncle Deaf Fellow.

p61	Pafa wulmen, pafa? That brother old man?, the brother?.

p62	Madiyerrwa. Madiyerrwa (Deaf Tommy).

p63	Nyinda wadde tye, a deme napa mengge tet. They both went. They could only see the hand.

p64	Dingin syibaty watypala nyinin? Did that white fellow drown?

p65	Yu, e wirrminy bawa, Yeah, and they went and got the body

p66	wirriketa nyinnin e ekeyi Long Jack yedi tye. along with uncle Long Jack when he was still alive.

p67	Awa nyinda werrtyem, e, They went out,

p68	wuddam wul wuni nyinda gagu afirr and came back with the body,

p69	nginyinggin. and that's when I saw it.

p70	Nyinyi? Patricia: ’You saw it?'

p71	Mmm, nyinda. Mmm, right there.

p72	Ngayi ngim kana minmi kinyi. I thought to myself 'This is no good'.

p73	Gagu ngadde nime tye puy, And we used to go hunting,

p74	Blackfella creek kinyi pefi. out to Blackfellow Creek,

p75	Magat, e tyen dede kinyi pefi … Lityfil! Gagu malarrgu kana ngini ngadde nime tye. and Magat, and what's that place … Litchfield! We'd go hunting for turtles.

p76	Can you just talk a bit louder? Nick: Can you just talk a bit louder?

p77	Gagu malarrgu kana ngini ngadde nime tye, We'd go hunting for turtles,

p78	e nguddam wul wakay. and then we'd come back.

p79	Nyinda. Like that.

p80	Wamumu menne ngatyayi ngayi nimbi ngani pirr kana ngini wurrkama kinyi After a while my father said to the police man 'I cannot work here now I'm leaving,

p81	ngani kana ngini Putkity. and going to Port Keats'.

p82	Nyinda. So that was that.

p83	Ngannunggu fili nime kinnimbi, We left here,

p84	e … and so …

p85	awawuni wannin lali Putkity girribem, e gittibem, all those people who are now living at Port Keats,

p86	awa derrigidi nayin nime ka. they're our families.

p87	Ekeyi ngayi, kalayi ngayi My uncles and my aunties,

p88	wuni girrim kirri. they're there.

p89	E tyafutytyafuty angguanggu ngayi, And my paternal and maternal granddads,

p90	ngenike were kirrim wunda. and my sisters and brothers are all there.

p91

Yu. yes.

p92	Tyafuty ngayi kirri yedi tye wulmen Cook. My paternal granddad was old Cook.

p93	Nyinda tyafuty ngayi kirri. Thats my grandfather.

p94	Kalayi ngayi wunnimbi, My mother is from over there,

p95	Lafuganying. at Lafuganying.

p96	Minde detyeri ngagadi tye minmi, ngagadi, I myself didn't know

p97	kide nganam fital tye, mengngindi kana. until I was old enough someone told me.

p98	Wirringngindi ‘Tyafuty nyinyi wa wunda gaganin leli’, They said to me 'That old man is your grandfather'

p99	wulmen ta, nyinnin wul Cook. That was that old man Cook.

p100	Ngayi atyutyup ngini tye kana minde kide ngan'gi ngini tyerrakul tye minmi wakay. I never said anything about it after that - I kept quiet.

p101	Kawu ngayi minde mengngindi minmi. My grandmother never said anything either.

p102	Mindefala. Not a peep.

p103	So how does it work that your tyafuty’s dede is Lafunganying but your ngatya's dede is Nimalak? Nick: So how does it work that your tyafuty’s dede is Lafuganying but your ngatya's dede is Nimalak?

p104	Yeah. But ngatyayi ngayi merrit mem kalayi ngayi, Yeah. But my father married my mother,

p105	kinyi. here.

p106	Ngayi minde detyeri werri tye ngani tye minmi. I didn't know much about it.

p107	Awa bakuty winni tye kinda, There were lot of them living here,

p108	awaFiveday werri ka, Tirrak awa nyin ka tyafuty tyafuty ngayi, with people like the FiveDays, Tirrak who are my grandfathers.

p109	ngayi ngim tyafuty ngayi awa nyinnin mene epe ngan'gi, At least the story I'd heard was that they were my grandfathers.

p110	wirringindi kana, a tyafuty nyinyi wa wunda gaganin lali. 'No' they said your grandfather is that old man wandering around,

p111	Lafugannyi kala nyinyi dede ngayim nyinda, wirringngindi. your mother's country is Lafuganying, that's what they explained to me.

p112	Kuri ngagadi kukuduk tye, yuri napa. I was drinking and fighting,

p113	Yuri yuri ngagadi leli tye e Berrima pub. I used to hang around the Berrima pub fighting.

p114	Apirri ka, Before that,

p115	Fannie Bay ngaganim wirr nyinda Fannie Bay one week, I was taken to Fanny Bay and was there for a week and,

p116	e, kide ngan'gi? how do you say it?

p117	Ngudam wul kinyi, So then I came back here

p118	puy yuri napa, and kept fighting,

p119	kuri werri wurru ngunu. you know, because of being drunk.

p120	Awakinyi ngagurr nime napa yuri tyagani ngini. All of us here, we'd fight over anything.

p121	Detyengi kinyi wakay. It's the same today.

p122	Wirrim kana awa yedinganggu kinyi, The young boys here

p123	yuri wannim patpit. are now all in fights.

p124	Tyen deme wrong nyinda, They get into some kind of wrongdoing,

p125	kuri napa, sober minda wirrim wannim. when they are drunk, but not when they're sober.

p126	So what's your job? Nick: So what’s your job?

p127	Night Patrol naganim wurrkama. I work with the Night Patrol.

p128	Night patrol? What do you do? Night patrol? What do you do?

p129	Start ngim six o'clock, I start at six o'clock,

p130	ngaganim pub. I go down to the pub.

p131	Awadrunkenmen kana, And all the drunks,

p132	kide ngan'gi, um how do you say it?,

p133	ngarimbirr tyarrpu I ask them

p134	’Yuda wul kana ngini?’. ‘Yu’. 'How about you go back now?'. 'Yeah, ok'

p135	A wannim madiwap? And they climb in?

p136	A wannim madiwap. E wuddem wul. Yeah, they get in, and head for home.

p137	Errike yaninggu wurrkama errike errike? Nick: How many of you working?

p138	Ngayi, I can’t call’im … ngayi minde, kide, Myself. And, well I can’t name her, I can't …

p139	waty nginge, ngiminge, say her name out loud,

p140	pugali wurru. because she is my cousin.

p141	E Syabuliny kala, But Cheryl's mum.

p142	Tyemen, And there's Tyemen,

p143	e Lawrence. and also Lawrence.

p144	Lawrence does NightPatrol too, does he? Lawrence does Night Patrol too does he?

p145	That wife one again, andi. His wife, that aunty as well?

p146	And do you enjoy it? Is it a good job? And do you enjoy it? Is it a good job?

p147	Yu, wurrkama yubu, Yes it's a good job,

p148

epe, but,

p149	kide ngan'gi, oh how to say it?

p150	Have you had um, like a difficult, a difficult time when somebody got violent with you, or Nick: Have you had um, like a difficult, a difficult time when somebody got violent with you, or …

p151

Yu, Yeah,

p152	or tried to push you around? Nick: … or tried to push you around?

p153	aa minmi, Oh not really.

p154	Nyin mewirrim napa wirrem bulbul. It's usually just them, they fight amongst themselves.

p155	Wannang nganmadi nimbi murriga wirrem bulbul wirrim intyat deti. Patricia: And even when they are inside the car, do they keep fighting?

p156	Yu nyinnin. Yeah, it can be like that.

p157	E kide, And sometimes,

p158	mindefala kana wuni pub, when there's no one at the pub,

p159	ngannim wunninggi kana new bridge e old crossing. we go around to the new bridge, and to the old crossing.

p160	Ngannim wuni tyekirret ngimbirr, We check on them,

p161	drunkinmen nana. in case there's drunks there.

p162	Kide ngan'gi? What else can I say?

p163	Kide ngirrim kuri bakuty wirrim kukuduk ne, nyinnin, So basically we're there for when they've drunk too much, like that,

p164	lenggirr nyinda ngagurr nime ngannim wuni, and it could be trouble for us, so we go there,

p165	ngirrimbirr kay, and we make the offer to them,

p166	wannim madiwap, to give them a ride,

p167	pagu. back here.

p168	Apirri nimbi awaNightPatrol, anywhere waddi leli nime tye. When the Night Patrol first started, they could go anywhere.

p169	Detyengi kinyi highway napa, pub, crossing, new bridge tyaminnapa. But today we only travel to the highway, the pub, the crossing and the new bridge - that's it.

p170	Epe kinyi intyat minmi? What about inside the community here?

p171	Minmi. No.

p172	A kinyi yu ngannim wurrkama, Well, when we're delivering people back,

p173	kulirr ngannim, e then yes we can circle through here,

p174	nguddam wul wuni pefi deti and then we head back out again,

p175	tyekirret ngannim awanyinda. to keep an eye on the others.