Gary Dhurrkay

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Gary Dhurrkay

Personal information
Full name	Gary Dhurrkay
Date of birth	(1974-03-04)4 March 1974
Place of birth	Northern Territory
Date of death	21 August 2005(2005-08-21) (aged 31)
Place of death	Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Original team	East Fremantle
Draft	pre-draft selection, 1995, Fremantle
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1995–98 1999–2000	Fremantle Kangaroos	51 (46) 21 (20)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2000 season.
Career highlights
East Fremantle premiership side 1994

Gary Dhurrkay (4 March 1974 – 21 August 2005) was an Australian rules footballer and Aboriginal Australian community leader.

Dhurkkay was a part of East Fremantle Football Club's 1994 premiership in the WAFL, before being a part of Fremantle's inaugural AFL team in 1995.

After an inconsistent season in 1998, he was relegated to Westar Rules for much of the year, and played in East Fremantle Football Club's 1998 premiership. At the end of the season he was delisted by Fremantle, but the Kangaroos gave him a second chance when they selected him with selection 31 in the 1998 AFL Draft. After playing 21 games in the 1999 and 2000 season at his new club, Dhurrkay retired in mid-2000 to focus on his Aboriginal cultural beliefs and became a leader of the Marngarr community in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

At about 5am on 21 August 2005, Dhurkkay was fatally injured in a car accident on the Melville Bay Road, Arnhem Land when his car rolled and he was thrown from his vehicle and died of his injuries. He was 31 years of age.^[1]

References

↑ Former Docker dead in NT car crash

External links

Gary Dhurrkay's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Inaugural Fremantle Football Club AFL team

Full-back	Jason Norrish Stephen O'Reilly Phil Gilbert

Half-back	Dale Kickett Peter Mann Quenton Leach

Centre	Scott Chisholm Ben Allan (c) Scott Edwards

Half-forward	Tony Delaney Craig Burrows Winston Abraham

Full-forward	Peter Bell Chris Groom Brendan Krummel

Ruck	Matthew Burton Todd Ridley Scott Watters

Interchange	Gary Dhurrkay Jamie Merillo David Muir

Coach	Gerard Neesham

Fremantle lost to Richmond 12.13 (85) to 12.18 (90), Round 1, 1 April 1995 at the MCG (Reference: Footystats)

v t e 1998 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Des Headland 2. Justin Longmuir 3. Nic Fosdike 4. Ryan Fitzgerald 5. Michael Stevens 6. Murray Vance 7. Josh Carr 8. Jude Bolton 9. Mark McVeigh 10. Brandon Hill 11. Lenny Hayes 12. Adam Ramanauskas 13. Chris Lamb 14. Luke Penny 15. Brady Rawlings 16. Brett Burton

Second round	17. Peter Street 18. Daniel Schell 19. Nick Davis 20. Michael Collica 21. David Clarke 22. James Begley 23. Chris Ladhams 24. David Wojcinski 25. Aaron Henneman 26. Michael O'Brien 27. Steven Baker 28. Heath James 29. Tyson Stenglein 30. Nicky Winmar 31. Gary Dhurrkay 32. David Gallagher

Third round	33. Craig Bolton 34. Bryan Beinke 35. Brad Oborne 36. Danny Jacobs 37. Adam Morgan 38. Brendan Fevola 39. Toby Thurstans 40. James White 41. Craig Jacotine 43. Damien Ryan 44. Heath Scotland 45. Aaron Shattock 46. Jay Solomon 47. Nicolas Lowther 48. Lucas Herbert

Fourth round	49. Garth Taylor 50. Damien Adkins 51. David Loats 52. Ryan O'Connor 53. Troy Schwarze 54. Derek Murray 55. Marc Dragicevic 56. Ilija Grgic 57. Andrew Embley 58. Ian Prendergast 59. Dwayne Simpson 60. Luke Speers 61. Ricky Symes 62. Tim van der Klooster 63. Clint Kirey

Fifth round	64. Andrew Shipp 65. Lee Walker 66. Steven Rode 67. Brett Backwell 68. Matthew Greig 69. Scott Bennett 70. Kurt Heazlewood 71. Simon Feast 72. Luke Taylor 73. Christin Macri 74. Adam Lange 75. Ken McGregor

Sixth round	76. Rupert Betheras 77. Adrian Cox 79. Ray Hall 80. Brodie Atkinson 81. Jacob Anstey 85. Shannon Motlop

Seventh round	86. Kris Barlow 89. Joel Duckworth 90. Shane Clayton

Persondata
Name	Dhurrkay, Gary
Alternative names
Short description	Australian footballer
Date of birth	4 March 1974
Place of birth	Northern Territory
Date of death	21 August 2005
Place of death	Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

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