Linda Burney Instagram – Aunty Beryl Carmichael was a role model for our people and an inspiration to her community in Western New South Wales.
She lived a life of giving back to her community and the people around her, including by helping to set up the Nyampa Housing Company in Menindee and serving on the first committee of Wiimpatja Rehabilitation Centre in Broken Hill.
With her wisdom and leadership, she made a real impact to people’s lives as a director of the NSW
Aboriginal Legal Service, and later as Aboriginal Cultural Studies advisor with the Department of Education and Training in 1990.
She shared her knowledge and experiences with school children and the wider community across New South Wales, and helped ensure an Aboriginal perspective was heard in the school curriculum.
Her legacy lives on in the thousands of lives she touched and in the gentle but firm push she was able to give the arc of history towards justice and truth.
It was beautiful that her community could come together last week in Menindee to recognise her life | Posted on 16/Jun/2024 12:55:30
