Lowitja O'Donoghue

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Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, AC CBE is a Yankunytjatjara woman from South Australia's far north. Her contribution to the advancement of Aboriginal people is great and widely recognised. Her positions have included inaugural Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Deputy Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development Corporation; a member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Indigenous Land Corporation; a member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Indigenous Land Corporation, the National Australia Day Council and the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations (Geneva); and Director of Aboriginal Hostels Limited.

Dr O'Donoghue received the Companion of the Order of Australia in 1999 and was honoured as Australian of the Year in 1984. Dr O'Donoghue has received honorary doctorate awards from Murdoch University in Western Australia, Flinders University of South Australia, the Australian National University in Canberra and the Queensland University of Technology. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia

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