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Dolly Gurinyi Batcho (c. 1905 - 1973) was a Larrakia woman who served on Aboriginal Women's Hygiene Squad, 69th, as a part of the Australian Women's Army Service. She was also a signatory of the 1972 Larrakia Petition; Beetaloo Jangari Bill (c1910 - 1983) a Gurindji and Warumungu Elder from Elliott, Northern Territory.
The following year she undertook midwifery training at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, where after completing the year-long course she remained on staff, becoming a charge sister. [citation needed] In 1962 Glynn returned to Alice Springs, where she became the first Aboriginal Charge Sister (Maternity Ward) at the Alice Springs Hospital.
Ruby Tjangawa Williamson (c. 1940–2017), painter, woodworker; Dora Wilson (1883–1946), British-Australian painter and print maker; Margery Withers (1894–1966), painter; Women's Domestic Needlework Group est 1976, traditional craft work; Maeve Woods (born 1933), painter, collage artist; Pauline Nakamarra Woods (born 1949), Aboriginal ...
Daisy Florence Ruddick née Cusack (15 August 1915 – 23 April 2002) [1] was a Gurindji woman and member of the Stolen Generations from the Northern Territory. Her skin name is Kumachi . [ 2 ]
Rita Cynthia Huggins (nee Holt; 10 August 1921 – 27 August 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian activist. She worked with One People of Australia League during the 1960s, and is the subject of a biography, Auntie Rita, co-written with her daughter Jackie Huggins and published in 1994.
Bin-Sallik was born in Broome, Western Australia, on 2 November 1940. [2] She moved with her family to Darwin, Northern Territory, at age nine.On leaving school she trained as a nursing sister at Darwin Hospital, where she was the first Indigenous person to graduate in 1961.
(Australia) an Aboriginal Australian. Originally, this was simply an informal term for Aborigine, and was in fact used by Aboriginal people themselves until it started to be considered offensive in the 1950s. In remoter areas, Aboriginal people still often refer to themselves (quite neutrally) as Blackfellas (and white people as Whitefellas).
Phyllis Mary Kaberry (17 September 1910 – 31 October 1977) was a social anthropologist who dedicated her work to the study of women in various societies. Particularly with her work in both Australia and Africa, she paved the way for a feminist approach in anthropological studies.