Tony Assan
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Full name
Tony Assan
Bio
Jockey in Brisbane at 13. Working on pearling luggers in TI at 19 (p. 18).
"My real dad was a Phillipino; my foster father is Indonesian, he’s an Indonesian High
Priest, very high. Bin Hussein Assan" (p. 18).
Served in Malaya (p. 19).
In mid-90s worked as the cook at the Rehabilitation Centre in Rockhole
community near Katherine (p. 21).
"Tony Assan’s story: I battled to get this", in Maggie Brady, ed. "Giving away the Grog: Aboriginal accounts of drinking and not drinking", Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2012 [1995], pp. 18-21:
https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020/09/giving-away-the-grog-aboriginal-accounts-of-drinking-and-not-drinking.pdf
"My real dad was a Phillipino; my foster father is Indonesian, he’s an Indonesian High
Priest, very high. Bin Hussein Assan" (p. 18).
Served in Malaya (p. 19).
In mid-90s worked as the cook at the Rehabilitation Centre in Rockhole
community near Katherine (p. 21).
"Tony Assan’s story: I battled to get this", in Maggie Brady, ed. "Giving away the Grog: Aboriginal accounts of drinking and not drinking", Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2012 [1995], pp. 18-21:
https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020/09/giving-away-the-grog-aboriginal-accounts-of-drinking-and-not-drinking.pdf
Sport
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Achievements
Debuted as boxer in 1943. Overview of his main fights 1943 -60 at https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/113803