People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

10 July, 1933
Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia

Death

1 April, 1993 (aged 59)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Cause of Death

emphysema

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

Occupation

• Indigenous rights activist/supporter
• labourer
• magazine/journal editor
• painter
• playwright
• poet
• political writer
• printmaker
• prisoner

Key Organisations

• Kalari Aboriginal Art Gallery (NSW)

Key Places

• Grafton Correctional Centre (NSW)
• Long Bay gaol (Sydney)
• Morrisett Psychiatric Hospital (NSW)
• Murie camp (Condobolin, NSW)

Political Activism

• Aboriginal tent embassy (ACT, 1972)

Social Issues

• domestic violence
• partner murder

Workplaces

• Purfleet Aboriginal Cooperative (NSW)