Charlie Flannigan (c. 1870 - 15 July 1893) was an Aboriginal Australian stockman from the then colony of Queensland who was the first person to be executed in the Northern Territory in 1893.
[2] He shot dead the acting manager "Greenhide" Sam Croker of Auvergne Station, a remote Northern Territory cattle station on 20 September 1892, after Croker had shot dead an Aboriginal man.
[2] While waiting to be executed, over 10 months Flannigan did over 80 drawings, now held at the South Australian Museum.
[3] An exhibition of Flannigan's drawings titled A Little Bit of Justice: The Drawings of Charlie Flannigan was displayed at the Northern Territory Library in Parliament House in Darwin in 2021.
[4] An exhibition of the same name was mounted at the South Australian Museum from May to September 2023, with an accompanying book by Darwin researcher, curator and author, Donald Nawurlany Christophersen.