ISBN |
9781922449719 (paperback) |
Author |
Jacobs, Sean (author) |
Title |
Neville Bonner / Sean Jacobs. |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Redland Bay, QLD : Conner Court Publishing, 2021. |
© 2021. |
Description |
104 pages ; 20 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary |
This new biography by Sean Jacobs, based on years of research, explores Neville Bonner's hardscrabble beginnings and rise to become Australia's first Indigenous federal parliamentarian. Despite a difficult start, and only a year of formal schooling, Bonner turned discrimination and setback into success, overcoming hard days in northern New South Wales and Queensland to represent Queensland as a Liberal Senator for 12 years in the national parliament (1971 - 1983). Bonner's towering dignity to be a full participant in Australian society, and his constant capacity to see the good in all Australians, make him not only a great Indigenous Australian but one of our greatest Australians. |
Subjects |
Bonner, Neville, -- 1922-1999 |
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography |
Politics and Government - Politicians - Parliamentarians |
History - Biographies - Indigenous |
Government policy - Assimilation - 1926-1950 |
Statesmen -- Australia -- Biography |
Biography |
Politicians -- Australia -- Biography |
Politicians -- Queensland -- Biography |
Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- |
Series |
Australian biographical monographs 11. |
Call number |
2022.220 |