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Eric Hedley Hayward

Eric Hayward is a Noongar Elder from south-west Western Australia. He hails from a family of leaders in WA sport. Particularly excelling in early Aboriginal entry to the mainstream sporting institutions of Athletics (Pedestrianism) and Australian Rules Football. Eric has continued his family’s contribution by promoting Aboriginal community sport, particularly football and golf, for which he has coordinated state and local events. He is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy at Curtin University.

Awards

Short listed, AIATSIS Stanner Award, 2007

Books available from Fremantle Press

From the Catalogue

Burning Bright

by Caroline Caddy

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things