Guide to the Papers of Lowitja O'Donoghue
MS 10445
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: November 2018
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Class. Consignment received 2013, 1940 - 2013
Series. Biographical, 1975-2013
This series is comprised of material relating to biographical and personal information of Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue. Many of the documents relate to O'Donoghue's roles as chair of Aboriginal Hostels, chair of Aboriginal Development Commission and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC); and her work as public servant for both the federal government of Australia and state government of South Australia. Including curricula vitae, correspondence, short biographies and newspaper clippings. The newspaper clippings cover a variety of topics in relation to O'Donoghue's career and advocacy; including speculation surrounding who Paul Keating would appoint as the next Governor General of Australia following The Honourable William George Hayden's retirement. This series also includes personal documents relating to O'Donoghue including her passports, school reports and correspondence regarding obtaining a birth certificate.
Recordings of interviews and addresses by O'Donoghue, 1988-2000 (File 25-35)
Scope and contents: Video and cassette tapes of programs, including recording for CAP TV News in September 1993, Lowitja O'Donoghue segment of SBS [Special Broadcasting Service] series Australian Biography 1994, Aboriginal Australia interview Feb. 1995, This is your life (with transcript) 2000.
Series. Speeches, 1978 - 2011
This series is comprised of speeches, addresses and lectures given by Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue for the most part ordered chronologically. Many of the speeches relate to O'Donoghue's roles as chair of Aboriginal Hostels, chair of Aboriginal Development Commission and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). O'Donoghue's speeches reflect her role as an advocate for Indigenous rights, with a focus on improving health, housing, education and overall welfare outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. O'Donoghue also advocated for the rights of refugees seeking asylum in Australia and equality for women...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 1978 - 1986 (File 1a) - Box 6
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is culturally sensitive including accounts of colonisation and mentions of genocide...
Flashcards of speeches given by O'Donoghue during her tenure as Australian of the Year 1985, 1985 - 1986 (File 1b) - Box 6
ICIP identification notice: This file contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of the Gaagudju people. The ICIP comes in the form of an account of the traditional methods Bluey Ilkarr and his wife Susie Aladjingu used for creating artworks...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue mainly about housing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 1987 - 1989 (File 2) - Box 6
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is culturally sensitive including accounts of the impacts of colonisation...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue as Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), 1990 - 1991 (File 3) - Box 6
Scope and contents: This file contains a speech delivered by O'Donoghue on the occasion of the transfer of the Merapah Station from the Queensland Government, to its Traditional Owners the Mungkanah people [Wik Mungkan people Y57] (1 June 1990)...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue as Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), 1992 - 1994 (File 5) - Box 6
Housing for Health : Towards a Healthy Living Environment for Aboriginal Australia / by Paul Pholeros, Stephan Rainow, Paul Torzillo, 1993 (Item 5a) - Box 6
ICIP identification notice: This material contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of the Pitjantjatjara people C6...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue as Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (Items 5b) - Box 6
Scope and contents: This material contains speeches given by O'Donoghue in her position as Chairperson of ATSIC including an speeches at the World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993), United Nations' Working Group on Indigenous Populations (Geneva, 1992), 90th Inter-Parliament Conference (Canberra, 1993), and the Australian Petroleum Exploration Industry (APEA) Conference. The speeches cover a variety of topics including the health and welfare of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and reflections on the High Court's decision on the Mabo versus Queensland case...
Unicorn : Journal of the Australian College of Education and Partnerships For Progress, 1995; 1998 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 7
Unicorn : Journal of the Australian College of Education, ( Volume 21, Number 4), 4 November 1995 (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 7
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including personal accounts of being part of the Stolen Generations...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 1996 - 1998 (File 6) - Box 7
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including accounts of violence, dispossession and colonisation...
Material relating to Kick the Tin by Doris E. Kartinyeri, 2000 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 7
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including personal accounts of being part of the Stolen Generations.
Kick the Tin by Doris E. Kartinyeri, 2000 (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 7
Content advisory notice: This file contains content of a sensitive nature, in relation to child sexual abuse, that may cause distress...
O'Donoghue's speech for the launch of Kick the Tin by Doris E. Kartinyeri, 31 October 2000 (Item [unnumbered]) - Box 7
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including personal accounts of being part of the Stolen Generations...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 1999 (File [unnumbered]) - Box 7
Scope and contents: Some of the speeches included in this file were presented to: the Department of Defence, Foreign Correspondents Press Conference, the Bangarra Dance Theatre, a Republican Women's Dinner, the 42nd RACGP [Royal Australian College of General Practitioners] Annual Scientific Convention, Reconciliation week events and an acceptance speech for the MinterEllison Nation Builders Award. The main themes of this file are national reconciliation, improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and discussion around the Bringing Them Home Report (the Australian Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families)...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue mainly about national reconciliation, 2000 (File 7) - Box 7
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including personal accounts of the experience of the Stolen Generations; as well as accounts of dispossession and Indigenous deaths in custody...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 2001 (File 8) - Box 7
Content advisory notice: This file contains content of a sensitive nature, in relation to domestic violence and child sexual abuse, that may cause distress...
O'Donoghue's speech for the The Seventh Annual Mahatma Gandi Lecture on Nonviolence held at McMaster University, Centre for Peace Studies and related documents, 23 October 2002 (File 9) - Box 8
ICIP identification notice: This file contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP comes in the form of a unidentified picture of cultural objects...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 2002 - 2003 (File 10) - Box 8
ICIP identification notice: This file contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Kaurna people. The ICIP comes in the form of words in the Kaurna language L3...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 2002 - 2003 (File 11) - Box 8
ICIP identification notice: This file contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP comes in the form of pictures of cultural dances and artworks. Including artworks by Regina Wilson, Lily Morton Akemarr, Gayluma Maymuru, Smauel Namunjdja, Alick Tipoti, Danie Mellor, Lorna Jin-Gubarrangunyia, Richard Bell and Wukun Wanambi...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue mainly about the treatment of refugees by the Australian government, 2003 (File 12) - Box 8
Scope and contents: Some of the speeches included in this file were presented at Anglicare Social Justice Lecture held at Anglicare Tasmania, Launch of Tampering With Asylum by Frank Brennan, the Australian Refugee Association Annual General Meeting, Third Annual Human Rights Oration held by the Equal Opportunity Commission (Victoria), and the Duguid Memorial Lecture held by the University of South Australia...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 2004 (File 13) - Box 9
Scope and contents: Some of the speeches included in this file were presented at the International Women's Day event for the Ceduna District Health Services, Young Investigator Award ceremony held by the University of Adelaide, Launch of CDAMS [Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools] Indigenous Health Curriculum Framework, United Nations Day held at St Peters Anglican Church (South Australia), the 8th Biennial International & Paediatric Child Health Nurses Conference, a Respect for Women seminar held by the Hawke Centre, University of South Australia and The Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress. The speeches cover a variety of topics including health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the abolishment of ATSIC [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission] and equality for women...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue and related newspaper clippings, 2005 (File 14) - Box 9
Content advisory notice: This file contains content of a sensitive nature, in relation to domestic violence and sexual abuse that may cause distress...
Speeches, addresses and lectures given by O'Donoghue, 2006 - 2010 (File 15) - Box 9
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including accounts of the Stolen Generations...
Three speeches given by O'Donoghue, June - November 2011 (File 16) - Box 9
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this file may contain content that is distressing and/or culturally sensitive including accounts of dispossession, frontier conflict, and massacres...
Lois O'Donoghue : chairperson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission : Speeches 1990-96, c. 1996 (File 17)
Scope and contents: The complete set of speeches given by O'Donoghue while chairperson of ATSIC [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission]. Bound in 3 volumes.
Lois O'Donoghue : chairperson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission : Speeches 1990-96 - volume one, c. 1996 (Item 17a) - Box 10
ICIP identification notice: This file contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples...