... Administrator. Namatjira being presented to the Queen in 1954 In 1953, Namatjira was awarded the Queen's Coronation Medal and he went to Canberra in 1954 to be presented to Queen Elizabeth II. In 1957, he was made the first Aboriginal citizen of Australia with his wife but not his children, tens years before such rights were given to all Aboriginal people. As ... ...

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