• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE1254

Thorpe, Marjorie

  • Occupation Child welfare worker, Community worker

Summary

Marjorie Thorpe, a descendant of the Gunnai and Maar people of Southern Australia, was born and raised in Yallourn, Victoria. She was a director of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) and Coordinator of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC). She also held the positions of Victorian Co-Commissioner for the Stolen Generations Inquiry and Council member for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.

Published resources

  • Resource
  • Book
    • The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations, Briskman, Linda, 2003
    • What did happen to the Aborigines of Victoria, Pepper, Phillip and T. de Araugo, 1985

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