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Alitja Rigney Alitja Rigney i(A123026 works by) (a.k.a. Alice Rigney)
Born: Established: 27 Nov 1942 Point Pearce, Central Yorke Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 13 May 2017 Adelaide, South Australia,
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Narangga / Narrunga ; Aboriginal Kaurna
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Alitja Rigney is a Narangga Kaurna woman. She grew up at the Point Pearce Mission on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, in the 1940s. During a long and outstanding career as an educator, she became the first Aboriginal female school principal in her state. Alitja Rigney was awarded a doctorate from the University of South Australia in 1998.

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2018 recipient Order of Australia — Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

For distinguished service to education, particularly through providing opportunities for youth, and to the promotion and protection of Indigenous language, culture and heritage.
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