Aboriginal rights trailblazer Lowitja O’Donoghue dies

Aboriginal rights advocate and trailblazer Lowitja O’Donoghue, who played a pivotal role in native title legislation and was the first Aboriginal person to address the United Nations, has died at home in Adelaide, aged 91. The Yankunytjatjara woman was the inaugural chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in 1990 and later lobbied […]

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