Australian Dictionary of Biography

• Mona Matilda McGowan

13 August, 1924
Dareel, Queensland, Australia

13 July, 1973 (aged 48)
Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• English
• 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.

• domestic servant (1939-1942) New South Wales, Australia
• Indigenous leader (1949-1973) New South Wales, Australia
• Indigenous rights activist/supporter (1949-1973) New South Wales, Australia
• novelist (1950-1973) New South Wales, Australia
• trade union official (1962-1973) New South Wales, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (1973-1973) New South Wales, Australia

• South Coast Labor Council (NSW) (secretary of the Aboriginal committee)
• Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (delegate, 1968-1972)

• Bellwood (visitor)
• Halloween Children's Home (Strathfield, Sydney) (resident, 1935-1941)
• La Perouse (visitor, 1949-1949)

• ALP (NSW) (member)

• W.D. and H.O. Wills (employee, 1944-1946)