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New Project Launched!
Explore the ADB’s new project The Quest for Indigenous Recognition produced by the National Centre of Biography, ANU, and Professor Mark McKenna. Launched by the Hon. Linda Burney, Minister for Indigenous Australians, on 11 September 2023, it details 23 key historical events in the long journey to the 2023 Referendum on the Voice.
Born This Day
Dorothy May Marshall (1902–1961)
Dorothy May Marshall (1902-1961), schoolteacher, war- and welfare-worker, and public servant, was born on 15 May 1902 in Adelaide, daughter of Charles Henry Marshall, a coachman who became a pioneer radiographer,...