People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Kennedy, Mona

Birth

15 July, 1936
Hamilton Bore, South Australia, Australia

Death

28 May, 2011 (aged 74)
Largs Bay, Adelaide, South Australia, 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.

• Antikirinya
• Arrernte
• Indigenous Australian
• Irish
• Scottish
• Yankunytjatjara

Education

• Oodnadatta School
• Aborigines Inland Mission Bible Training College (Singleton, NSW)

Occupation or Descriptor

• autobiographer/memoirist
• cook
• cultural storyteller
• domestic servant
• Indigenous rights activist/supporter
• interpreter
• language teacher
• poet
• short story writer

Mission/Reserve

• Oodnadatta Children's Home

Key Organisations

• Carclew

Political Activism

• Irati Wanti (The Poison, Leave It)

Workplaces

• Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (SA)
• Seaforth Home (Somerton, SA)
• Oodnadatta Children's Home
• Colebrook Children's Home (SA)
• Gerard Mission
• Campbell House Farm School (Meningie, SA)
• Stuart House Boys’ Hostel (SA)
• University of Adelaide