Natascha McNamara

Australian academic, researcher and activist

Member of the Order of the British Empire
Member of the Order of Australia

Natascha Duschene McNamara AM, MBE (born 1935 in Clare, South Australia) is an Ngarrindjeri Australian academic, activist, and researcher.^[1] She 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. Her affiliations include: Fellowship, Centre of Indigenous Development Education and Research, University of Wollongong (as Adjunct Senior Researcher); member, Australian Press Council; 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^[2]
Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 8 June 1992.^[2]

References

^ AIATSIS Institute News November, 2000. Retrieved 23 July 2009
^ ^a ^b Land, Clare (27 April 2009). "Profile of Natascha Duschene McNamara". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 15 August 2009.

Sources

Horton, David (editor), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (p. xxxiii); Australian Press Council.

External links

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3572152
http://www.presscouncil.org.au/
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0120b.htm

Aboriginal peoples of South Australia

Peoples

Communities

APY Lands:	Amaṯa Iltur Indulkana Kalka Kaltjiti (Fregon) Kaṉpi Makiri Mimili Mintabie Nyapaṟi Pipalyatjara Pukatja (Ernabella) Umuwa Watarru Yunyarinyi
Other:	Akenta (Poonindie) Colebrook Davenport (Umeewarra) Gerard Killalpaninna Koonibba Nepabunna Oak Valley Point Pearce Raukkan (Point McLeay) Yalata

Notable people

Organisations

Religion and culture

Arkaroo 'Dreamtime' (muda, mura-mura, tjukurrpa, etc.) Tjilbruke Muldjewangk Ngiṉṯaka Wati-kutjara
Indigenous protected areas:	Watarru Mount Willoughby
Co-managed protected areas:	Dhilba Guuranda-Innes Elliot Price Conservation Park Gawler Ranges National Park Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park (part) Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park Lake Gairdner National Park Ikara–Flinders Ranges National Park Innamincka Regional Reserve Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National Park Mamungari Conservation Park Ngaut Ngaut Conservation Park Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area Nullarbor Regional Reserve Pureba Conservation Park Strzelecki Regional Reserve Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park Wapma Thura–Southern Flinders Ranges National Park Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park Witjira National Park Yumbarra Conservation Park

Languages

Adnyamathanha Antakirinja Arabana Barngarla Dieri Kaurna Narungga Ngadjuri Ngamini (Yarluyandi) Ngarrindjeri Paakantyi Wangkangurru Western Desert language (dialects: Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara) Wirangu Yandruwandha Yarli (Malyangapa) Yuyu
Language groups:	Lower Murray languages Thura-Yura languages Sign languages
Words:	Aṉangu (Western Desert language) Nunga (Aboriginal English)

Laws

Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 Aboriginal Witnesses Act Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 Laws concerning Indigenous Australians
Cases:	List of native title claims in South Australia