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Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Died in 1993

Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska was born on 3 November 1920, on Minjerribah according to Encyclopedia.com, in Bulimba, Brisbane, according to the ADB. She left primary school to become a domestic servant, served during the war in the women's army service and married Bruce Walker in 1942. Queensland secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines, she led the campaign that resulted in the 1967 referendum. In 1988 she took the name Oodgeroo Noonuccal, after returning her British decoration in protest at the bicentenary. She died of cancer in Brisbane in September 1993.

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