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Occupation
  
Academic, researcher

Name
  
Natascha McNamara

Role
  
Activist


Born
  
1935 (age 79–80)
Clare, South Australia, Australia

Nationality
  
Ngarrindjeri Australian

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia

Natascha Duschene McNamara, MBE, AM (born 1935 in Clare, South Australia) is an Ngarrindjeri Australian academic, activist, and researcher.

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Career

McNamara co-founded the Aboriginal Training and Cultural Institute in Balmain, New South Wales and served as President of the Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society Ltd.

Affiliations

  • Fellowship, Centre of Indigenous Development Education and Research, University of Wollongong (as Adjunct Senior Researcher).
  • Member, Australian Press Council
  • Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Council

    • 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

    Natascha McNamara Wikipedia
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