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. He is a regular at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and a key opponent of the Barrick Gold gold mine project at Lake Cowal.
Decades earlier, at the start of the 1960s, Williams, then in his early twenties, 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.
