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Home > About Ideas > Advisors Jacqui KatonaJacqui Katona is the Chief Executive Officer of the Lumbu Foundation. She is an editor, development worker, campaigner, researcher and writer.
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She is currently engaged through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council to develop a manuscript analysis of the political, economic and environmental barriers and opportunities surrounding indigenous Australians assertion of rights.
From 1996 to 2001 Jacqui Katona was the Executive Officer of the Gundjehmi Aboriginal Association representing the Mirrar clan, traditional owners of parts of Kakadu National Park. She was the campaign leader in those people’s national and international actions against Jabiluka.
Prior to her appointment to Gundjehmi, Jacqui had worked as the Coordinator of the National Coalition of Aboriginal Organisations Secretariat to establish an organisational structure for information movement within a nation-wide network of Aboriginal organisations. Katona represented this organisation at the United Nations Working Party on Indigenous Populations in the area of information. In 1995, she was Stolen Generations Project Officer for North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, providing assistance for the coordination of litigation in High Court and Federal Court cases on behalf of the Stolen Generation of the Northern Territory.
Katona's professional experience also includes consultancy, training, editing and advisory work on deaths in custody, stolen generations, childcare and cross cultural awareness. She has given several lectures as well as produced papers and submissions.
Jacqui Katona is the recipient of:
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- Peter Rawlinson Environmental Award, Australian Conservation Foundation, 1997
- Goldman Environmental Prize, Island Nations, 1999
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In 2001, Jacqui Katona was a popular speaker at the Ideas Festival. She joined Professor Ian Lowe to present a session for ABC’s Australia Talks Back entitled 'Australia is not an island' and presented an evening lecture ‘Ideas to fight for’.
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