Shane Mortimer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shane Mortimer

Aboriginal elder

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1955

Place of Birth: Belmore, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: filmmaker

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Shane Mortimer (born 24 December 1955) is a Ngambri man with a strong connection to the local Canberra region.
Mortimer was born in Belmore, Sydney in 1955 to parents Lesley and Jim Mortimer.
Mortimer lived unaware of his aboriginality until 1989, when he discovered a maternal line going back to Ngambri woman Ju Nin Mingo, daughter of James Ainslie.
His grandmother Adelaide McClelland had been taken from her mother Florence Ellen Lowe at the Brungle Mission, prior to the First World War.
She was one of the thousands of stolen Aboriginal children to be forcibly removed from their parents under legislation that operated in Australia between 1910 and 1970. Mortimer has been living in the Canberra area since the early 1990s.
In 2009–10 he co-produced his first feature film, Vulnerable, and he is currently working on a 13-part documentary series on native Australian grasslands.
He is also Chairman of the Ag-Arts Residency Kenmore Limited.