Preface

About the Remembering
Minto Project

Why Storytelling?

Group Events
& Achievements

Information & Cultural
Exchange (ICE)

Sponsors & Partners

Acknowledgements

Remembering Minto Committee (past and present)
Bev Harvey, Kathy Calvert, Yvonne Sayers, Jenny O’Rourke, Robyn Stafford, Friar, Kevin Goode, Julie Foreman (St Vincent de Paul Society Animation Project), Michelle Morrison (Macquarie Fields TAFE Outreach), Cathey Shepherd (Minto Community Library), Mary Enkababian, (Sydney South West Area Health Service), Tanya Smith and Melanie Thompson (Uniting Care Burnside Family Centre), Tania Ward, Troy Ruttley, Enda Murray, Lena Nahlous and Caitlin Vaughan (Information and Cultural Exchange).

Department of Housing committee representatives
David Lilley, Glenda Buckley, Leo Kenyon, Melissa Tait

Project Management and Coordination
Lena Nahlous, Caitlin Vaughan

Project Coordinator
Troy Ruttley (April 2005 to August 2006)

Community Writer
Enda Murray (unless otherwise indicated, all stories collected by Enda)

Additional story collection and writing
Friar Dan Neylon, Friar Kevin Goode, Bev Harvey, Yvonne Sayers, Kathy Calvert, Robyn Stafford, Nadyat El Gawley, Lena Nahlous, Fadia Abboud, Xanthe Lawson, Caitlin Vaughan, Troy Ruttley, Finn O’Keefe

Project Worker / Production Assistant
Xanthe Lawson

Project Assistants
Richard White, Royce Wilkinson

Book Design
Meiying Saw (ragingyoghurt.org)

Website Design
Garry Trinh (www.quiet.com.au)

Editing and proof-reading
Paula Abood, Barry Gamba, ICE staff and RM Group

Assistance with transcriptions
Rhonda Kennedy, Samira Helmy, John Lloyd and his dog Checkers

Photography and images
Marian Abboud and David Otott (Minto Storytelling Festival), Phillip Littlewood (older images of Minto), Julie Foreman, Pedro Altuna, Robyn Stafford, Enda Murray, Caitlin Vaughan, Xanthe Lawson, Nadyat El Gawley. Many people have contributed by taking photos, sharing their albums with us and we have tried to acknowledge them throughout this website.

Video Stills
Fadia Abboud, Robyn Stafford, Peter Panoa

Additional images and photography
Participants of the Minto Through Our Eyes photo-diary project: Kristy Hart, Jamie Sagigi, Teau Robert, Ruth Marsters, Chantelle McGowan, Meagan Hennessy, Jemma Callega, Krista Conwell, Cassie Whieldon, Tarsha Gavin, Mihajla Gavin from Sarah Redfern High School, Thuy Ta

Podcasts / radio pieces
Finn O’Keefe, Nadyat El Gawley, Peter Panoa

Thank you
Adele Goodwin, Alison Shearer and Maggie Yuem (Dept of Housing), Bev Barfield, Bev Davis, Burnside Family Centre team, Julie Callaghan, Campbellfield Public School, Campbelltown Library (Georgina Keep, Michael Sullivan and Annette Gleave), Cheryl McBride (and the staff and students from Sarah Redfern Public School), Christine Fraser, Colleen Fuller, Councillor Mollie Thomas, David Ottot (for olunteering his professional photography skills), Dolly Delaney, Dr Gabrielle Gwyther, (University of Western Sydney), Glenda Chalker (Tharawal Aboriginal Land Council and Chairperson, Cubbitch Barta Native Title Claimants Aboriginal Corporation), Glyn Mather, Uncle Ivan Wellington, Jane McIvor (Macarthur Community Forum), Jeff McGill (Macarthur Advertiser), Dr Judy Stubbs (University of Western Sydney), Kim’s Dance Academy, Lisa Havilah and the staff at Campbelltown Arts Centre for hosting the Minto Storytelling Festival, Maggie Kyle (Macarthur Community Leadership Project), Malaemie Fruean and the team at SWYPE and HYPE, Margaret and Ron McAndrew, Minto Community Library team, Minto Residents’ Action Group, Passfield Park Public School, Paul Gavin (and the staff and students of Sarah Redfern High School), Pedro Altuna (Memories of Sarah Precinct Calendar), Phillip and Carina Littlewood, Ronita and Liz Ruttley, Sylvia Hale MLC, Graeme West MP, John Ryan MLC for hosting Remembering Minto NSW Parliament event, Tammy Hibbert and the team at Minto Youth Centre, Vanna Seang, Wayne Scowcroft.

Thank you to all those ICE staff past and present who have been involved in the project: Linda Mirabilio, Fadia Abboud, Liliana Ruti, Therese Fingleton, Mouna Zaylah, Miguel Sumera.

Thank you to all of those who have assisted with and participated in this project over many years - from volunteering at the Minto Storytelling Festival, attending storytelling sessions, sharing your stories and photographs to helping paint the project office. We have made every effort to acknowledge and thank all those involved, and apologise for any omissions.