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Clare Martin presents certificate to Barbara Cummings as a part of the Tribute to Northern Territory Women, 2003. Barbara Cummings (1 January 1948 – 1 September 2019) was an Australian Nangiomeri woman and member of the Stolen Generations. She was brought up at the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin, Northern Territory. [1] [2] [3]
Ellen Mary Stack CBE (4 May 1929 – 19 May 2023) was an Australian medical doctor and the first female Lord Mayor of an Australian capital city. She was the mayor of the City of Darwin, Northern Territory, from 1975 to 1979, and lord mayor from 1979 to 1980.
Nova Maree Peris OAM (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
Evacuations were prioritised according to need. Women, children, the elderly and sick were evacuated first. There were reports of men dressing up as women to escape with the early evacuations. By 31 December only 10,900 people remained in Darwin, mostly men who were required to help clean up the city. Darwin enacted a permit system.
In 2001 two cloths she embroidered were featured in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 'Threads of History: the embroidered record' (25 May - 26 August 2001). [8] Fitzer died on 27 August 2001 and she is buried at the Darwin Gardens Cemetery. [9] Fitzer is one of the women celebrated in the mosaic of Damoe-Ra Park. [10]
In 1975 Western Australia and the Northern Territory elected their first women mayors, Councillor Evelyn H. Parker of the City of Subiaco [37] [38] and Dr Ella Stack of the City of Darwin respectively. In the 1980s women began to hold the position of Lord Mayor in the capital cities for the first time, including: Adelaide – Wendy Chapman ...
The Poinciana Woman is the subject of an Australian urban legend that dates back to the 1950s. [1] There are multiple versions to the myth, but most follow the story of a woman who was raped and hanged, under a Poinciana tree, by a group of men in the East Point Reserve of Darwin, Northern Territory.
[citation needed] Together with Rex Wild QC, she co-authored the 2007 Little Children Are Sacred report on child abuse in the Northern Territory. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Anderson is the chairperson of the Lowitja Institute , Australia's national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. [ 9 ]