The Wire

This week’s exciting discovery of the remains of a small hominid which is believed to be a different form of human to any discovered do far, and lived in Indonesia as recently as 12,000 years ago, has thrown new light on cultural mythology about “little people”. The Irish are now claiming it amounts to scientific proof of the existence of leprechauns. For indigenous people in Australia it also bears out many old stories about very small people. Uncle Neville Gollan and Tom Trevorrow are Narrandjeri elders. They say an apology is now due for the way their cultural stories, including some about little people, were dismissed by the 1995 Royal Commission into the Hindmarsh Bridge affair.