Angelina Noble
Aboriginal Australian translator and missionary
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Faith Thomas
Indigenous Australian nurse, cricketer and hockey player
Helena Clarke
Australian Indigenous rights activist
Ngingali Cullen
Aboriginal Australian activist and nurse
Vai Stanton
Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent
Pat Turner
Aboriginal Australian feminist and indigenous rights activist
Tarereenore
Aboriginal leader from the nineteenth century that organised an armed resistance against white colonists in now-Tasmania, Australia.
Nandergoroke
Bunurong woman from the 1800s who was taken captive and enslaved by white men
Barbara Shaw
She rose through the ranks of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress to become its Deputy Director. In addition she has held executive positions on the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Tangentyere Council and the Joint Aboriginal Management Information Services. She was involved with the development of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue
In 1989, Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue became the first woman chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.