Lisa Bellear, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indigenous Australian writer and activist
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Lisa Bellear
- Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster.
- She was a Goernpil woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Queensland.
- Her uncles were Bob Bellear, Australia's first Indigenous judge, and Sol Bellear who helped to found the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in Redfern in 1972.
- Bellear was adopted into a white family as a baby and was told she had Polynesian heritage.
- As an adult she explored her Aboriginal roots.Bellear died unexpectedly at her home in Melbourne.
- She was 45 years old.
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