Natascha McNamara

Natascha Duschene McNamara, MBE, AM (born 1935, Clare, South Australia, Australia) is an Ngarrindjeri Australian academic, activist, and researcher.

Career

She co-founded the Aboriginal Training and Cultural Institute in Balmain, New South Wales and served as President of the Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society Ltd.

Of Ngarrindjeri descent, McNamara is the Managing Director of Accord Cross Cultural Development. She is also a member of the Australian Press Council and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Council.^[1]

Affiliations

• Fellowship, Centre of Indigenous Development Education and Research (CIDEAR), University of Wollongong (as Adjunct Senior Researcher).

Honours

• Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil list), 3 June 1978^[2]
• Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 8 June 1992.^[2]

Sources

• Horton, David (editor), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (p. xxxiii); Australian Press Council.

External links

• http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3572152
• http://www.presscouncil.org.au/
• http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0120b.htm

References

1. ^ Institute News November, 2000. Retrieved 23 July 2009
2. ^ ^{a b} Land, Clare (27 April 2009). "McNamara, Natascha Duschene (1935 - )". The Australian Women's Register. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0120b.htm. Retrieved 15 August 2009. 

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