Neville Bonner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Ukerebagh Island, New South Wales, Australia
About Neville Bonner
- Neville Thomas Bonner AO (28 March 1922 – 5 February 1999) 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, and later became the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the parliament by popular vote.
- Neville Bonner was an elder of the Jagera people.
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