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McGrady has been photographing political and social events of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and families of the Redfern, Surry Hills, and Waterloo communities for 30 years from her perspective as a Gomeroi woman. [4] She is the first Indigenous photojournalist in Australia. [6]
Aboriginal women carrying a child wrapped in pelt cloak, South Australia, c. 1860. Despite efforts to bar their enlistment, over 1,000 Indigenous Australians fought for Australia in the First World War. [179] 1934 saw the first appeal to the High Court by an Aboriginal Australian, and it succeeded.
For love or money: a pictorial history of women and work in Australia (Penguin Books, 1983) Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. Talkin'up to the white woman: Aboriginal women and feminism (Univ. of Queensland Press, 2000) Ryan, Edna and Anne Conlon. Gentle Invaders: Australian Women at Work (Melbourne: Penguin, 1975).
Joe Flick (c.1865 - 1889) Indigenous Australian outlaw who shot dead a Native Police officer; Gnunga Gnunga Murremurgan (c.1773 - 1809) Eora man who was the first Indigenous Australian to travel across the Pacific Ocean; Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) a Torres Strait Islander man who worked as a pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier
It includes Australian women that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indigenous Australian people .
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
In the 1980s, McKenzie became an important voice for women of the Warmun community and reintroduced the Women’s Law which was a shelter that protected women from domestic violence. She also led a project supported by the Heritage Council of Western Australia to record mythological, historical, and women’s ceremonial sites in the area to ...
All the women are wearing European dress, woman on left also wrapped in animal fur. The image is captioned "Lubras Camp, Maloga". "Lubra" is an offensive 19th-century term, used in Australia for Aboriginal women.