Interview with Justice Lyn Furnell, retired New South Wales District Court Judge, and Royal Commissioner into Aboriginal Affairs in Western Australia / Interviewer: Neil Bennetts

1976

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Furnell, Lyn Cuthbert.

Western Australia. -- Royal Commission into Aboriginal Affairs.

Native title (Australia)

Lawyers -- New South Wales.

Judges -- New South Wales.

Furnell speaks about his family background; his childhood in Bangalow, N.S.W.; his schooling in Bangalow and Lismore; attending the University of Sydney and Teachers College; teaching in a number of schools, including Sydney Church of England Grammar School; qualifying as a Barrister in 1933; his time as a Judge on the District Court, including on the northern circuit; his views on sentencing; his retirement in 1973; Royal Commission into Aboriginal affairs in Western Australia, and the resulting report; and Aboriginal land rights.

Access open for research, personal copies and public use.

Recorded in Sydney, New South Wales on 11 September 1976.

Oral History Collection.

6 sound discs (ca. 270 min.) : bdigital + transcript (97 l.)