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He was the first Aboriginal person to be selected as deputy leader of the Australian Democrats, and was in this role from April 2001 – October 2002. [10] Ridgeway was the first Indigenous person to use an Indigenous language in Federal Parliament. [11] On 25 August in 1999 in his first speech to the Senate, he stated:
This list of Indigenous Australian politicians includes Indigenous Australians who have been members of Australian legislatures—federal, state or territory. It does not include those elected to local councils (including mayors), Governors/Governors-General, leaders of political parties (outside of parliament), Indigenous Australians actively involved in political institutions and those who ...
Montpelliatta (c.1790 - 1836) an Aboriginal Tasmanian resistance leader; Moorooboora (c.1758 - 1798) an Eora leader after whom the suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales is named; Moowattin (c.1791 - 1816) guide and assistant to the botanist George Caley. He was the first Aboriginal person to be legally hanged in New South Wales.
Lidia Alma Thorpe (born 18 August 1973) [1] is an Aboriginal Australian (Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung [2] [3]) independent politician.She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state.
Aunty Jean Phillips is an Indigenous Australian elder and has been a senior Aboriginal Christian leader for over 60 years. She was born on the Aboriginal mission of Cherbourg, Queensland and later she served as an Aboriginal missionary herself with the Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM).
Bhutto was also the first of only two non-hereditary female world leaders who gave birth to a child while serving in office, the other being Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand. [7] The longest-tenured female non-hereditary head of government is Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. She served as the country's prime minister from June 1996 to July 2001 and ...
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 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]