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Kathleen Mary Mills OAM (née McGinness; 6 April 1936 – 24 April 2022), also known as Mooradoop and Aunty Kathy, was an Australian community leader, singer, Aboriginal elder and activist in the Northern Territory of Australia. She had a large family, all musical, with several of her daughters being well known as the Mills Sisters.
Kathleen Mary McGinness, later commonly known as Kathy Mills and also known as Mooradoop, was born on 6 April 1936 in Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Her paternal grandparents were Stephen McGinness, an Irish seaman from Dublin (about whom she wrote a poem), and prominent elder Lucy McGinness, aka Alngindabu, whose children included several leaders and activists. Their son John Francis "Jack" McGinness (aka Kingulawuy), activist and the Northern Territory's and Australia's first elected Aboriginal union leader in 1955, holding the position of NAWU president over three stints until 1963, was Kathy's father.
Her mother was Kingarli (died 1954), later called Polly Wakelin, a Gurindji woman who was removed from Wave Hill Station to Kahlin Compound, making her one of the Stolen Generation. However she did not transmit bitterness about her life, but rather passed on her Aboriginal culture.
Kathy Mills was a Kungarakung (paternal grandmother's link) and Gurindji (mother's line) woman.
Mills became a strong advocate for services addressing alcohol policy and alcoholism and was a key figure in the establishment of the FORWAARD alcohol rehabilitation centre in Darwin in 1967.
Mills was the first woman to be elected to the Northern Land Council,[when?] and was involved in the establishment of Batchelor College (later Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education).
Mills was appointed a co-commissioner for the Northern Territory to the panel of the Stolen Generations Inquiry, which produced the Bringing Them Home report and was a major factor in having the Stolen Generations issue recognised at a national level. She was also a champion of language maintenance for Aboriginal Australian languages.
Kathy Mills
Kathleen Mary Mills OAM (née McGinness; 6 April 1936 – 24 April 2022), also known as Mooradoop and Aunty Kathy, was an Australian community leader, singer, Aboriginal elder and activist in the Northern Territory of Australia. She had a large family, all musical, with several of her daughters being well known as the Mills Sisters.
Kathleen Mary McGinness, later commonly known as Kathy Mills and also known as Mooradoop, was born on 6 April 1936 in Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Her paternal grandparents were Stephen McGinness, an Irish seaman from Dublin (about whom she wrote a poem), and prominent elder Lucy McGinness, aka Alngindabu, whose children included several leaders and activists. Their son John Francis "Jack" McGinness (aka Kingulawuy), activist and the Northern Territory's and Australia's first elected Aboriginal union leader in 1955, holding the position of NAWU president over three stints until 1963, was Kathy's father.
Her mother was Kingarli (died 1954), later called Polly Wakelin, a Gurindji woman who was removed from Wave Hill Station to Kahlin Compound, making her one of the Stolen Generation. However she did not transmit bitterness about her life, but rather passed on her Aboriginal culture.
Kathy Mills was a Kungarakung (paternal grandmother's link) and Gurindji (mother's line) woman.
Mills became a strong advocate for services addressing alcohol policy and alcoholism and was a key figure in the establishment of the FORWAARD alcohol rehabilitation centre in Darwin in 1967.
Mills was the first woman to be elected to the Northern Land Council,[when?] and was involved in the establishment of Batchelor College (later Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education).
Mills was appointed a co-commissioner for the Northern Territory to the panel of the Stolen Generations Inquiry, which produced the Bringing Them Home report and was a major factor in having the Stolen Generations issue recognised at a national level. She was also a champion of language maintenance for Aboriginal Australian languages.