Gwoya Jungarai

Gwoya Tjungurrayi ( – 28 March 1965), also spelt Gwoja Tjungarrayi, Gwoya Jungarai, and Gwoya Djungarai, and also known by his nickname One Pound Jimmy, is known for being the first Aboriginal person to be featured on an Australian postage stamp, in 1950, although his name was not used to describe the image on the stamp. A survivor of the 1928 Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory, he later became an elder and lawman of his people. The name Gwoya, is a non-Indigenous rendering of the Anmatyerr word , meaning 'water' or 'rain'.

The electoral division of Gwoja was named after him.

Biography Tjungurrayi was born around 1895 although accounts of his survival differ: He worked as a miner at the Arltunga gold mine and the mica mines in the eastern Harts Range, before moving on and working for pastoralists at Napperby, Hamilton Downs, and Mount Wedge Stations. His career as a stockman and station hand lasted 20 years. although the spelling Gwoya Jungarai was used by Australia Post, However the nickname is deemed offensive by some today.

The image was used as the cover of a new tourism magazine called Walkabout in September 1936. He featured on the cover of the September 1950 edition of the same magazine, the description reading "Australian Aboriginal". He even shaved off his beard at one stage to be less recognisable.

In 1950 the image was used on an 8½ pence stamp and a 2 shillings and 6 pence (half crown) stamp,

Tjungurrayi's image was used anonymously on the 1938 stamp, and he was just described as "an Aborigine" on the 1950 one.

Later life, death and legacy Tjungurrayi was respected as an elder and lawman of his people in later life, a rare honour for an Aboriginal person at that time.

The Northern Territory Electoral division of Gwoja, created in 2019, was named after Tjungurrayi. unlike the use of his father's image, Tim's name was used and he was celebrated as a significant artist.