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Jenny Munro (née Coe) is an Australian Wiradjuri elder and a prominent activist for the rights of Indigenous Australians. She has been at the forefront of the fight for Aboriginal housing at The Block in Sydney and started the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy. [1] She is the sister of activists Isabel Coe and Paul Coe. [2]
By 1962–65 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were granted universal suffrage. Specifically, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 gave all Aboriginal people the option of enrolling to vote in federal elections, [1] whereas the previous Commonwealth Electoral Act 1949 gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in federal elections only if they were able to vote in their state elections.
William Cooper (c.1861 - 1941) political activist and community leader, first to lead a recognised national Aboriginal movement Joseph (Joe) Croft (c. 1925 - 1996) was a Gurindji and Mudburra man who was a member of the Stolen Generations and went on to become the first Aboriginal person to attend and Australian university
Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. Lowitja O’Donoghue, trailblazer for indigenous Australian rights ...
Pearl Mary "Gambanyi" Gibbs (née Brown) (18 July 1901 – 28 April 1983) was an Indigenous Australian activist, and the most prominent female activist within the Aboriginal movement in the early 20th century.
Pages in category "Australian indigenous rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Marcia Lynne Langton (born 31 October 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. As of 2022 she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.
In 1975 Eatock attended the Alternative Tribune to the International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. [2] From 1978 to 1981 she was a project officer in the Aboriginal Unit of the Department of Social Security, and she was also a lecturer at Curtin University (1991–92, community development) and James Cook University (1997 ...