Beetaloo Jangari Bill or Wirinykari / Weingari (c. 1915 – 1986) was a Warumungu and Gurindji man who worked as a labourer and became an elder of his people.
[5] He was the son of Roderick Jampin (Mirilkari), a Warumungu man, and Clara Parrangali Nawurla who was Gurindji and he was the eldest of several children.
[2] Bill went through Aboriginal initiation in 1930, 'the year that Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup' and as a young man he married Jessie (Jersey) Karnangkurrngali Nampijinpa.
They raised a family in a small settlement just north-west of Elliott and when, in February 1962, the Northern Territory government decided to transfer his daughter Nita Nabada (9 years old), and four other children, from the school they had been bused 36 miles (58 km) to daily at Newcastle Waters to Elliott Primary School, which was much closer to home, Bill became a vocal advocate for the move.
[2][9] Bill defended Nita, and the other children, and told the journalist Frank Hardy that he wanted her to be able to read and write and that he `would not take her away from the school no matter what happened’.