Lowitja O’Donoghue was a great Indigenous woman. A very great one.

She led the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission with great power and ambition.

Upon my beginning to give effect to the High Court decision in Mabo, early in 1992, she, at her own initiative, assembled the leadership of her nations’ Land Councils to form an Aboriginal representative group to negotiate a Native Title Act, with me as Prime Minister,........

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