Doris Pilkington Garimara

Doris Pilkington Garimara, whose name was Nugi Garimara, was born in 1937 at the cattle station of Balfour Downs, in the eastern Pilbara. While still small, she was sent with her little sister to the Moore River settlement; according to her publisher, her mother, Molly Craig, was sent back there with them. At eighteen, she left the mission system by training as a nursing aide at the hospital, then, according to her publisher, studied journalism and worked for film and video. A member of the Order of Australia, she died on 10 April 2014 in Perth.

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• NovelCaprice: A Stockman's DaughterDoris Pilkington Garimara · 1991Literature