Neville Williams

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Neville 'Chappy' Williams, known as "Uncle Chappy" to those who follow indigenous Australian customs, is an elder of the Wiradjuri Nation, in western New South Wales, Australia. He is a key opponent of the Barrick Gold gold mine project at Lake Cowal, and a regular at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

Williams won renown as a young boxing hopeful with a strong possibility of becoming the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Olympic Boxing team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics^{[citation needed]}. Later in the decade he was featured on the Australian TV boxing show TV Ringside.

[edit] See also

• Wiradjuri
• Prominent indigenous Australians

[edit] External links

• Riot cops at Lake Cowal - Oms Not Bombs
• - Lake Cowal Cmapaing Website (with pictures of Uncle Chappy)