Chairperson and Director of Reputation
Billard Aboriginal Community
Stephen Victor Snr is a Senior Traditional Owner (Nyul Nyul) of the Central Dampier Peninsula. He is an active citizen in the Beagle Bay Community and senior cultural adviser to the Nyul Nyul Working Group. Stephen is known for his gentle nature, loyal friendship and his ‘old school’ work ethic. Now retired from the pearling industry, Stephen spends his time fulfilling his many responsibilities to the community, often travelling to Broome, Perth, Sydney and Canberra in between sometimes managing to fit in some fishing with his wife Dorothy, children, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Blank Page Summit Director
Executive Director - Billard Learning Centre
Kari has worked with Billard Aboriginal Community since 2004. In 2006 Kari was the recipient of a High Commendation from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for her work as an individual in promoting and protecting the human rights of Indigenous Australians. Kari has worked all over Australia with federal, state and local governments, Indigenous organizations, communities, families and individuals in the key policy areas that have dominated the last 20 years in Indigenous affairs – law, land, housing, governance, human services, employment and economic development.
Tauri D’Eatough
Cultural Aide to Stephen Victor Snr
Executive Adviser to Billard Aboriginal Community
Tauri is Stephen Victor Snr’s ‘right hand person’. In 2000 she was shortlisted nominee in the NSW Law and Justice Awards due to her significant contribution to Aboriginal children in the criminal justice system in her then capacity as a Children’s Court solicitor. Tauri first visited Billard Aboriginal Community in 2006 and over the years, she has continued to work closely with Stephen Victor Snr to chronicle the natural world of spring country – its creatures, cosmology and physicality.
Shonelle and Nelson O’Reeri and the Victor family
Billard Aboriginal Community
The Victor family is made up of four living generations of over 70 individuals. The majority of family members live in the Kimberleys. A close and communicative family, the Victors work together in a variety of ways to strengthen and sustain their community at Billard. Leading the youth at the Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn Youth Mob 2011 on behalf of the younger members will be Shonelle O’Reeri, the eldest child of Mary and Nelson O’Reeri and the eldest granddaughter of Stephen and Dorothy Victor Snr. Shonelle will be lovingly supported by her many cousin brothers and sisters, particularly Tasha, Jason, Lana, Lendal, Farren and Dwayne, as well as Nelson O’Reeri – her Dad and the quiet backbone of the O’Reeri family in Beagle Bay.
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Stephen Victor Snr
Chairperson and Director of Reputation
Billard Aboriginal Community
Stephen Victor Snr is a Senior Traditional Owner (Nyul Nyul) of the Central Dampier Peninsula. He is an active citizen in the Beagle Bay Community and senior cultural adviser to the Nyul Nyul Working Group. Stephen is known for his gentle nature, loyal friendship and his ‘old school’ work ethic. Now retired from the pearling industry, Stephen spends his time fulfilling his many responsibilities to the community, often travelling to Broome, Perth, Sydney and Canberra in between sometimes managing to fit in some fishing with his wife Dorothy, children, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Read more about Stephen Victor Snr here.
Read about Dorothy Victor here.
Mary Victor O’Reeri
Main-Person-in-Charge (with Stephen Victor Snr) Billard Aboriginal Community
Blank Page Summit Co-Rapporteur (with Sam Mostyn)
Read about Mary Victor O’Reeri here.
Kari Kristiansen
Blank Page Summit Director
Executive Director - Billard Learning Centre
Kari has worked with Billard Aboriginal Community since 2004. In 2006 Kari was the recipient of a High Commendation from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for her work as an individual in promoting and protecting the human rights of Indigenous Australians. Kari has worked all over Australia with federal, state and local governments, Indigenous organizations, communities, families and individuals in the key policy areas that have dominated the last 20 years in Indigenous affairs – law, land, housing, governance, human services, employment and economic development.
Tauri D’Eatough
Cultural Aide to Stephen Victor Snr
Executive Adviser to Billard Aboriginal Community
Tauri is Stephen Victor Snr’s ‘right hand person’. In 2000 she was shortlisted nominee in the NSW Law and Justice Awards due to her significant contribution to Aboriginal children in the criminal justice system in her then capacity as a Children’s Court solicitor. Tauri first visited Billard Aboriginal Community in 2006 and over the years, she has continued to work closely with Stephen Victor Snr to chronicle the natural world of spring country – its creatures, cosmology and physicality.
Billard Aboriginal Community
The Victor family is made up of four living generations of over 70 individuals. The majority of family members live in the Kimberleys. A close and communicative family, the Victors work together in a variety of ways to strengthen and sustain their community at Billard. Leading the youth at the Blank Page Summit Hard Yarn Youth Mob 2011 on behalf of the younger members will be Shonelle O’Reeri, the eldest child of Mary and Nelson O’Reeri and the eldest granddaughter of Stephen and Dorothy Victor Snr. Shonelle will be lovingly supported by her many cousin brothers and sisters, particularly Tasha, Jason, Lana, Lendal, Farren and Dwayne, as well as Nelson O’Reeri – her Dad and the quiet backbone of the O’Reeri family in Beagle Bay.