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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 ...
In the 1976 Australia Day Honours, O'Donoghue became the first Aboriginal woman to be inducted into the new Order of Australia founded by the Labor Commonwealth Government. The appointment, as a Member of the Order (AM) was "for service to the Aboriginal community". [32] In 1982 she won an Advance Australia Award. [24]
Elizabeth Maud Hoffman, née Morgan, also known as Aunty Liz or Yarmauk, (10 March 1927 – 6 April 2009) was an Australian Indigenous rights activist and public servant. . She co-founded the first Indigenous Woman's Refuge in Australia, named "The Elizabeth Hoffman House" in her hon
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.
This quote has served as a motto for many activist groups in Australia and elsewhere. Watson was heard delivering this quote at the 1985 United Nations Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi. [2] However, the origins of the quote date back further. She has explained that in the early 1970s she had been part of an Aboriginal Rights group in ...