Emeritus Professor W.E.H. "Bill" Stanner (1905-1981) was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians and played an important role in establishing the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

He also led the North Australia Observation Unit (NAOU), the "Nackeroos" or "Curtin?s Cowboys" formed in March 1942 and disbanded March 1945, they patrolled northern Australia for signs of enemy activity.

He coined the terms the "Great Australian Silence" and "everywhen" in the 1968 Boyer Lectures titled "After the Dreaming", reflecting on the silence on Indigenous Australians in Australian history after white settlement.

External links

• ABC Radio National
  • Report on Bill Stanner Hindsight, 9 January 2005
  • Battlefields of Aboriginal History Perspective 24 October 2005
• W. E. H. Stanner: Anthropologist and Public Intellectual: a two-day symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of W.E.H. Stanner

(1905 - 1981) at the ANU Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Thursday 24 - Friday 25 November 2005

• Stanner Award references the Award established by AIATSIS in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emeritus Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute
• WEH Stanner building home of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University
• The WEH Stanner Collection The papers of William Edward Hanley Stanner were donated to AIATSIS by Mrs Patricia Stanner in 1982
• The paintings of Nym Bandak The paintings of Nym Bandak were presented by the National Gallery of Australia at an exhibition 'Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds' at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, the most significant exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art ever to travel abroad
• Aboriginal History Volumes 1, 3, 5 & 6 an annual refereed publication in the field of Australian ethnohistory, particularly in the post-contact history of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
• M Force references Lieutenant Colonel Bill Stanner, Commanding Officer of the 2/1 Northern Australia Observer Unit (the Nackeroos).
• "The Nackeroos" Australia under attack 1942-43 at the Australian War Memorial

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