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Walkabout
with
Julitha
A young West Australian girl,
brought up on a 750,000-acre sheep
property 600 miles from Perth, is
one of the latest auditions to the
ranks of successful Australians who
have achieved success m London.
She is 22-year-old Julitha Walsh, of
Mileura Station, Cue (WA), who achieved
her own television programme—"Walk-
about with Julitha"—on the BBC. This
followed her appearance in the BBC com-
bined sound and TV show, "In Town
Tonight," the night after her arrival in
England for a holiday visit earlier this
year.
Julitha's specialty is aboriginal music,
of which she has made recordings in
such places as the Kimberleys and up
the Fttzroy River. She has also prepared
glossaries of two aboriginal languages—
Woodjarry and Gniganayay. Her name,
too, Is an aboriginal one and in the
Murchison language means "walkabout,"
but to the Murchison aborigines she is
known as Booju, which
means "excellent."
Julitha is a sixth-genera-
tion Australian and spent
part of her childhood in the
Kimberleys. When her
father died four years ago
she took over the manage-
ment of the family pro-
perty for two years and
learnt wool-classing to help
her. After that she em-
barked on a radio career
and before going abroad
presented a number of
broadcasts on music of the
Kimberleys for the Austra-
lian Broadcasting Commis-
sion.
Educated in Perth, she
has studied typing and
shorthand and ballet danc-
ing, and is also an accom-
plished cook.
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