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Name
Bill Onus
Also known as:
  • William Onus
  • William Townsend Onus
  • W. T. Onus
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
Other Occupation
  • TV show narrator (ANZSIC code: 5511)
  • Rigger (ANZSIC code: 5220)
  • Shearer (ANZSIC code: 0522)
  • Prospector (ANZSIC code: 1012)
  • Delivery truck driver (ANZSIC code: 4610)
  • Secretary of the APA (ANZSIC code: 9559)
  • Shipping clerk (ANZSIC code: 7291)
Birth date
15 November 1906
Birth place
Cummeragunja Aboriginal Reserve, NSW
Death date
10 January 1968
Death place
Deepdene, VIC
Active Period
  • 1940 - 1968
Residence
  • c.1934- Salt Pan Creek, south-western Sydney, NSW
  • Bega, NSW
  • c.1929- Sydney, NSW
  • 1918 Riverina
  • 1906 Cummeragunja Aboriginal Reserve, NSW
  • 33 Terry Street, Deepdene, VIC
  • 1946 Melbourne, VIC
Indigenous Australian
 
Languages
  • English

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(2008), 'Moomba: What's in a name?', digital video.>, <ExternalResource: Fraser, Virginia (2008), 'Making a show of it: Indigenous entertainers and entrepreneurs in 1950s Melbourne', City of Melbourne, Art and Heritage Branch, Exhibition Catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: 'Corroboree Season 1949'.>, <ExternalResource: (1951), 'An Aboriginal Moomba: 'Out of the Dark'', The Princess Theatre, Melbourne.>, <ExternalResource: 'Seeking Aboriginal Stars in Qld, AAL Press Book, Moomba 1951', Unmarked cutting, Onus family archives.>, <ExternalResource: 'Irene Mitchell papers', State Library of Victoria LaTrobe Collection., MS 10368.>, <ExternalResource: 'Interviews in person and by telephone: Gary Foley, Judy Him, Merle Jackomos, Paula Kerry (now O'Dare), Iris Lovett-Gardner, Naomi Meyers, Irene Mitchell, Christine Onus (now Donnelly), Lin Onus, Joanne Onus, Tiriki Onus, Herb Patten, Des Smith and Alma Toomath.'.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'Boomerang by Bill Onus', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'Boomerang decorated by Lin Onus', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Casey, Maryrose (2004), 'Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre 1967-1990', University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, QLD.>, <ExternalResource: Howie-Willis, Ian. (2000), 'Onus, William Townsend (Bill) 1906-1968', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, pp. 538-539.>, <ExternalResource: Howie-Willis, Ian. (1994), 'William, (Bill Onus) 1906-1968)', The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia vol. 2, pp. 824-5.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert , S. (1994), 'Jacky Jacky was a Smart Young Fella': Art and Aboriginality in south eastern Australia', PhD Thesis, ANU.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. (1999), 'An Aboriginal Moomba: Remaking History', Continuum, vol 13, no 3 November 1999, pp. 345-358.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. in (ed.), G. Levitus (1997), ''Aboriginal landscapes', Lying about the Landscape', Craftsman House, pp. 82-99.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. in (eds.), S. Kleinert and M. Neale (2000), 'Onus, Bill (William) Townsend (1906-1968), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture', Oxford University Press, p 666.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. (2006), 'Aboriginality in the City: Re-reading Koorie Photography', Aboriginal History, vol. 30, pp. 69-94.>, <ExternalResource: Neale, M. (2000), 'Urban Dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus 1948-1996', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. in (eds.) S. Kleinert and M. Neale (2000), ''Art and Aboriginality in the south east', The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture', Oxford University Press, pp. 240-247.>, <ExternalResource: Director, F.L. Few (1962), 'Alcheringa', Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Tucker, M. (1977), 'If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker MBE', Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Attwood, Bain. (2003), 'Rights for Aborigines', Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: (2 July 1964), 'TV's Important Role in Helping Aboriginal Cause', The Age.>, <ExternalResource: Few, Frank & Betty (1963), 'The Boomerang Maker, Alcheringa Series', Rigby, Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Horner, J. (1974), 'Vote Ferguson for Freedom', Australia and New Zealand Book Co. Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Goodall, Heather. (1996), 'Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972', Allen & Unwin, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: (4 April 1952), 'USA shuts out Aboriginal Now!', Argus.>, <ExternalResource: Davis-Hurst, Patricia (1996), 'Sunrise Station', Taree, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Simon, Ella (1978), 'Through My Eyes', Collins Dove, Blackburn Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Summary of practice in Summary of practice given in Nanette Carter & Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. Melbourne Univ. Press, 2021, 221 pages, illustrated, p.68>, <ExternalResource: Ian Howie-Willis, Onus, William Townsend (Bill) (1906–1968), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 2000>] [<ExternalResource: Fraser, Virginia. (2008), 'Moomba: What's in a name?', digital video.>, <ExternalResource: Fraser, Virginia (2008), 'Making a show of it: Indigenous entertainers and entrepreneurs in 1950s Melbourne', City of Melbourne, Art and Heritage Branch, Exhibition Catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: 'Corroboree Season 1949'.>, <ExternalResource: (1951), 'An Aboriginal Moomba: 'Out of the Dark'', The Princess Theatre, Melbourne.>, <ExternalResource: 'Seeking Aboriginal Stars in Qld, AAL Press Book, Moomba 1951', Unmarked cutting, Onus family archives.>, <ExternalResource: 'Irene Mitchell papers', State Library of Victoria LaTrobe Collection., MS 10368.>, <ExternalResource: 'Interviews in person and by telephone: Gary Foley, Judy Him, Merle Jackomos, Paula Kerry (now O'Dare), Iris Lovett-Gardner, Naomi Meyers, Irene Mitchell, Christine Onus (now Donnelly), Lin Onus, Joanne Onus, Tiriki Onus, Herb Patten, Des Smith and Alma Toomath.'.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'Boomerang by Bill Onus', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'Boomerang decorated by Lin Onus', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Casey, Maryrose (2004), 'Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre 1967-1990', University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, QLD.>, <ExternalResource: Howie-Willis, Ian. (2000), 'Onus, William Townsend (Bill) 1906-1968', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, pp. 538-539.>, <ExternalResource: Howie-Willis, Ian. (1994), 'William, (Bill Onus) 1906-1968)', The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia vol. 2, pp. 824-5.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert , S. (1994), 'Jacky Jacky was a Smart Young Fella': Art and Aboriginality in south eastern Australia', PhD Thesis, ANU.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. (1999), 'An Aboriginal Moomba: Remaking History', Continuum, vol 13, no 3 November 1999, pp. 345-358.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. in (ed.), G. Levitus (1997), ''Aboriginal landscapes', Lying about the Landscape', Craftsman House, pp. 82-99.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. in (eds.), S. Kleinert and M. Neale (2000), 'Onus, Bill (William) Townsend (1906-1968), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture', Oxford University Press, p 666.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. (2006), 'Aboriginality in the City: Re-reading Koorie Photography', Aboriginal History, vol. 30, pp. 69-94.>, <ExternalResource: Neale, M. (2000), 'Urban Dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus 1948-1996', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.>, <ExternalResource: Kleinert, S. in (eds.) S. Kleinert and M. Neale (2000), ''Art and Aboriginality in the south east', The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture', Oxford University Press, pp. 240-247.>, <ExternalResource: Director, F.L. Few (1962), 'Alcheringa', Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Tucker, M. (1977), 'If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker MBE', Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Attwood, Bain. (2003), 'Rights for Aborigines', Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: (2 July 1964), 'TV's Important Role in Helping Aboriginal Cause', The Age.>, <ExternalResource: Few, Frank & Betty (1963), 'The Boomerang Maker, Alcheringa Series', Rigby, Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Horner, J. (1974), 'Vote Ferguson for Freedom', Australia and New Zealand Book Co. Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Goodall, Heather. (1996), 'Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972', Allen & Unwin, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: (4 April 1952), 'USA shuts out Aboriginal Now!', Argus.>, <ExternalResource: Davis-Hurst, Patricia (1996), 'Sunrise Station', Taree, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Simon, Ella (1978), 'Through My Eyes', Collins Dove, Blackburn Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Summary of practice in Summary of practice given in Nanette Carter & Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. Melbourne Univ. Press, 2021, 221 pages, illustrated, p.68>]