Natascha Duschene McNamara (born 1935 in

Clare, South Australia The town of Clare is located in South Australia in the Mid North region, 136 km north of Adelaide. It gives its name to the Clare Valley wine and tourist region. At the , Clare itself had a population of 3160 as part of an urban area with ...

) is an

Ngarrindjeri The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ''Ngarrindjeri'' means "belo ...

Australian academic, activist, and researcher.AIATSIS Institute News
November, 2000. Retrieved 23 July 2009 She co-founded the '' Aboriginal Training and Cultural Institute'' in

Balmain, New South Wales Balmain is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. It is locate ...

and served as President of the ''Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society Ltd''. Her affiliations include: Fellowship, Centre of Indigenous Development Education and Research,

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

(as Adjunct Senior Researcher); member,

Australian Press Council The Australian Press Council (APC) was established in 1976 with the goal of promoting high standards of media practice, community access to information of public interest, and freedom of expression through the media. The Council is the leading in ...

; and Member
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Council
.

Awards and honours

* Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil list), 3 June 1978 * Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 8 June 1992.

References

Sources

* Horton, David (editor), ''The

Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia ''The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture'', edited by David Horton, is an encyclopaedia published by the Aboriginal Studies Press at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal ...

: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture'', Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (p. xxxiii);

External links

* http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3572152 * http://www.presscouncil.org.au/ * http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0120b.htm 1935 births Living people Australian Indigenous rights activists Australian women human rights activists Australian non-fiction writers Australian women writers Indigenous Australian writers Indigenous Australian social workers Australian social workers Members of the Order of Australia Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Clare, South Australia Academic staff of the University of Wollongong Ngarrindjeri people Date of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-academic-bio-stub