TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dempsey,Bill
AU  - Hawke,Stephen
TI  - The boy from Birdum: the Bill Dempsey story 
SN  - 9781925936049 (paperback)
U1  - 796.336092 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Broome, Western Australia
PB  - Magabala Books
KW  - Dempsey, Bill,
KW  - Retta Dixon Children's Home
KW  - Australian football players
KW  - Northern Territory
KW  - Biography
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Perth
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Bill Dempsey is a humble achiever. He is known primarily as a champion footballer with West Perth and the Darwin Buffaloes. A premiership captain who played over 400 games in 20 seasons in Perth and the Northern Territory, and a member of the AFL's Indigenous Team of the Century, his record and his achievements compare with the very best. He is revered as a true legend at West Perth. Bill has led a remarkable life. Born in the shadow of Japanese bombing raids in 1942. Forcibly removed from his mother after the death of his father and baby sister, he was a stolen child who never lost contact with his family and found a second family amongst his fellow inmates at the Retta Dixon Home. Brought to Perth at the age of seventeen as a 'spare wheel' to his mate Jim Anderson, he stayed on to become a football champion and a trailblazer as an Aboriginal entrepreneur throughout the 80s. In The Boy from Birdum, Bill tells his story frankly, courageously, and with the charismatic flair of a natural-born yarn spinner
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