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Aboriginal man in blue checked shirt and akubra hat smiles at camera

Black and white photo of Moola Bulla Station in the Kimberley, 1953

"Me and another two girls, one was my age, another one was older, police grabbed all of us and took us to a police station in Fitzroy [Crossing] and then we met another boy there, they got him from Derby,"
Mr Lovell said.

"And I don't know why, but it stuck to me more than the others."
Aboriginal children branding a calf at Moola Bulla Station in Western Australia's Kimberley in the 1910s.

A leather saddle displayed on a wooden mount

"He rang the superintendent, and they said, 'If they want a job, give them a job'. And that was out of Moola Bulla."

Black and white image of Sam Lovell on a bronco horse, Napier Downs, 1956

Windjana Gorge, ca.1955

"And these people used to say — 'You want to start a tour?'"
Sam Lovell in the Kimberley

Image of tourism brochure for Kimberley Safaris showing prices and line drawing of truck

"And all the community, I went and talked to them. I know I'm a lucky one, you know. Everything sort of fell into place pretty good."
Sam Lovell with his tour truck, circa 1993

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