Neville Williams
| Neville WIlliams | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Boxing, opposition to Lake Cowal gold mine |
| Boxing career | |
| Statistics | |
| Nickname(s) | Chappy |
| Weight(s) | lightweight[1] |
| Stance | Orthodox[1] |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 34[2] |
| Wins | 16 |
| Wins by KO | 5 |
| Losses | 18 |
| Draws | 0 |
Neville "Chappy" Williams is an elder of the Wiradjuri Nation, in Western New South Wales. Known as "Uncle Chappy" to those who follow indigenous Australian customs, he is a regular at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and a key opponent of the Barrick Gold Corporation's gold mine project at Lake Cowal.[3] Barrick sold the Cowal Mine to Evolution Mining in 2015.[4]
Decades earlier, at the start of the 1960s, Williams, then in his early twenties, won renown as a young boxing hopeful whom a few sports columnists had singled out as a strong candidate for becoming the first Aboriginal member of the Australian Olympic Boxing team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Later in the decade he was featured on the Australian television boxing show TV Ringside.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Neville Williams". Boxrec. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ "Boxer Neville Williams". BoxStat.co. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ "Internationally significant environment, not clapped-out cattle country". Indymedia. Independent Media Centre Australia. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ Validakis, Vicky (25 May 2015). "Barrick Gold sells Cowal Gold mine". Australian Mining. Prime Creative Media. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
External links
- February 2005 report from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (published on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website) includes a quote from Uncle Chappy Williams
- Report from corroboree for Lake Cowal, as Wiradjuri elders, Uncle Chappy Williams and Auntie Isabel Coe lead the protest