Lowitja

The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul is a profoundly moving biography of a great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders.

"I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel I had been deprived of love and the ability to love in return. Like Lily, my mother, I felt totally powerless. And I think this is where the seeds of my commitment to human rights and social justice were sown." - Lowitja O'Donoghue

Lowitja ODonoghue is a truly great Australian. She is arguably our nation's most recognised Indigenous woman. A powerful and unrelenting advocate for her people, a former Australian of the Year, she sat opposite Prime Minister Paul Keating in the first negotiations between the Australian government and Aboriginal peoples and changed the course of a nation.