Author Sean Gorman

Sean Gorman

Sean Gorman has studied and worked in Indigenous Studies for 16 years. He currently lectures at the University of Melbourne where he works in the School of Culture and Communication in the Australian Indigenous Studies program. His book Brotherboys: The Story of Jim and Phillip Krakouer was published in 2005 by Allen and Unwin.

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Blacksmith Blues: History, Film and the Outlaw: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Henry Reynolds

August 2008

I first came across the story of Jim and Joe Governor in 2002 when I was researching, for my PhD, a biography of the Noongar (south-west Western Australian) brothers Jim and Phillip Krakouer who played for Nort...