Neville+Bonner

Neville Bonner was the first Aboriginal person to sit in Federal Parliament as a Senator for Queensland from 1971 to 1983.On his journey from poverty to parliament house he experienced unemployment and discrimination. As a politician he worked to improve conditions for Aborigines, and became a voice for his people. Neville Bonner was born in 1922. His mother was an Aborigine, but he never knew his father, who was a Englishman and left Neville and his mother before he was born.