About Neville Bonner
Neville Thomas Bonner was an Australian politician, and the first Aboriginal Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia. He was appointed by the Queensland Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of Queensland in the Senate in 1971, and in 1972 became the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the parliament by popular vote. Bonner was an elder of the Jagera people.
Notable works:
Becoming a Physician: medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945
Awards:
Australian of the Year|Officer of the Order of Australia
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