Fred Hallows (1929-1996)
   

          -1929: He was born inApril 9,1929 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
          -1936: He. Moved to Palmerstan North when he was seven years old.
          -1951: He attended medical school at the University of Otago (1951-1955)
          -1958: Fred got married Mary Skiller until she died a sad death in 1975.
          -1965: Fred moved to Australia to became the Associate Proffesor at the University of NSW.
          -1969: He went to Moorfields Eye Hospital in England to study opthamology.
          -1971: Fred set up the first Aboriginal Medical Service in Australia.
          -1980: Fred later married a second time to Gabi O'Sullivan.
          -1981: He won the Advance Australa Award.
          -1985: Refused order of Australia .
          -1990: He won the Human Rights Medal .
          -1991: He was presented Humanist of the year.
          -1993:Fred Hallows passed away on the 10th of February.

                                              Essie Coffee
           1941-  Essie Coffee was born near Goodoonga in Northern NSW.
           1950- She got married to Albert Doc Coffee, raising eight children and adopting ten more.
           1960- Mrs Coffee established the aboriginal Movement in Brewarrina.
           1960s and 1970s she worked in the health and legal service.
           1968- she presented Queen Elizabeth with a copy of her film, My Survival as an Aboriginal,
                        at the opening of the new Parliament House in Canberra.
           1978- The film,which made in 1978 and won notional and international recognition,
                      documents the effects of dispossession ,the chronic depression alcoholism ,deaths in
                      custody and poverty that was so much a part of life for Aboriginal people.
           1993- a sequel followed , M y life as I live it, which also received notional acclaim.
           1985 was awarded Australia Medal.