Lowitja O’Donoghue was a trailblazer for Indigenous women. “There is a generation of girls who flourished because of her. I am one of those women,” says Voice architect Megan Davis.
Lowitja O’Donoghue, the trailblazing Indigenous leader and senior bureaucrat, is being celebrated as a giant of modern Australia after her death at the weekend.
Dr O’Donoghue, 91, lived the tragedy of the Stolen Generations, but became a nurse and social worker who rose to be the inaugural chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).
Michael PellyLegal editorMichael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. Email Michael at michael.pelly@afr.com
