Australian Dictionary of Biography

• Constance Turner
• Doreen Turner

15 June, 1919
Borroloola, Northern Territory, Australia

19 September, 1997 (aged 78)
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

cancer (not specified)

• Garrwa
• Indigenous Australian

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• schoolteacher (1938-1941) Northern Territory, Australia
• cook (1945-1970) Northern Territory, Australia
• Indigenous rights activist/supporter (1968-1997) Northern Territory, Australia
• welfare worker (1970-1985) Northern Territory, Australia

• Member of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1982-1982)

• Bombing of Darwin, 1942 (victim, 1942-1942)
• National Aboriginal Seminar, 1969 (participant, 1969-1969)
• Cyclone Tracey, Darwin, 1974 (victim, 1974-1974)

• Stolen Generation (member)

• Connie Bush St, Alyangula, NT (eponym)

• National Women's Advisory Council (member, 1978-1980)

• Roper River Mission (NT) (resident, 1920-1924)
• Emerald River Mission (Groote Eylandt) (resident, 1924-1941)

• stolen child (stolen child)

• Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (NT) (employee)
• Emerald River Mission (Groote Eylandt) (teacher, 1938-1941)
• Dept of Community Development (NT) (employee, 1970-1975)
• Dept of Aboriginal Affairs (NT) (employee, 1975)