Indigenous activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96
Indigenous activist Faith Bandler poses for a photograph at her home in Sydney in 2009. (AAP) AAP
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler has died. She was 96.
Ms Bandler was instrumental in campaigning for the 1967 referendum to give indigenous Australians rights under the constitution.
In 1956, she also helped establish the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship and was general secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Ms Bandler received many awards for her work, being named as a national living treasure and receiving the Order of Australia.
"Her legacy lives on in our journey toward the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples," Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and opposition Indigenous Affairs spokesman Shanye Neumann said in a joint statement today.
They both offered their condolences.
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