People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

28 March, 1922
Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia

Death

5 February, 1999 (aged 76)
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Indigenous Australian

Education

• Beaudesert State School (Qld)

Occupation

• carpenter
• liberal/conservative politician
• Member of Upper House
• stockman/woman
• sugar cane cutter

Awards

• Australian of the Year
• Officer of the Order of Australia

Key Events

• Constitutional Convention, 1998

Legacies

• Bonner federal electorate (Qld)
• Neville Bonner Building (Brisbane)
• Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship (ANU)

Key Organisations

• Coloured Welfare Council (Qld)
• Palm Island Social and Welfare Association (Qld)
• World Vision (Qld)
• One People of Australia League (Qld)
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Griffith University (Qld) (admin)
• Indigenous Advisory Council (Qld)

Key Places

• Ukerebagh Island Reserve (NSW)
• Cherbourg settlement (Qld)

Political Activism

• Liberal Party (Qld))

Workplaces

• Moreton Council (Qld)