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  Neville Bonner
Neville Bonner was the first Aboriginal person to sit in Federal Parliament as a Senator for Queensland from 1971 to 1983.
Neville loved school, but when his grandmother died he was heart broken and packed his swag and set off to find work.
Neville Bonner died of lung cancer at Ipswich, Qld in February 1999.
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 Neville Bonner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Neville Bonner (28 March 1922 - 5 February 1999), Australian politician, was the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Parliament of Australia.
Bonner was almost unique in being an indigenous activist and a political conservative: in fact he owed his political career to this fact.
Bonner was an elder of the Jagera people.
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 Neville Bonner interview (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bonner: Well yes, he's one of the characters proposing it but he's not the only one of that opinion, he's only expressing an opinion of a large section of the Australian community.
Forget Neville Bonner as the person, the major thing was that for the first time in history, an indigenous person had made it into the federal parliament where all laws pertaining to this nation are made.
Neville Bonner: I'm an official visitor to all prisons in south-east Queensland; I'm on the council of Griffith University; I'm the chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education Committee at Griffith University; I'm on the board of 'Fusion', which is a Christian organisation nationally; I'm on the advisory committee of Old Parliament House.
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 ANU - OVC - SCHOLARSHIPS - NEVILLE BONNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
‘Neville Bonner’s life is a study not only of courage, conscience and compassion in the face of extraordinary adversity, but also of personal and national reconciliation’.
Established in the year 2000 by the Federal Government, The Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship is Australia’s most prestigious scholarship for Indigenous Australians to study Honours in Political Science or related subjects at any Australian university.
Please read the Additional Information attached to the Application Form, which includes the Scholarship Terms and Conditions and some information on Neville Bonner. The transcript of a Speech on Neville Bonner by the Hon Dr Brendan Nelson, then Minister for Education, Science and Training, is also available for reference.
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 Neville Bonner - Australian Biography (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Born in northern NSW in 1922, Neville Bonner started his working life as a ringbarker, canecutter and stockman.
He spent 16 years on the repressive Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve where he learned many of the skills that would help him later as a politician.
Bonner became the first Aboriginal person in Federal Parliament, representing Queensland as a Liberal Party Senator from 1971 to 1983.
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