Torres Strait Islander elder Dolly Hankin has won a prestigious Naidoc award presented by the Catholic Church.
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Dolly won an elder award in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC).
The award recognises Dolly's outstanding community work in Mount Isa, and her daily contributions to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ministry.
Dolly is one of seven people, and the only Queensland to win the Deacon Boniface Award for Elders, named in tribute to Deacon Boniface Perdjert, Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deacon.
Deacon Boniface, who passed away earlier this year, was also an Aboriginal Elder of the Kardu Diminin clan and the traditional custodian of the land on which the Northern Territory town of Wadeye (Port Keats) is built.
Dolly Hankin is from Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait and has lived in Mount Isa since 1981.
Dolly received the award at Good Shepherd Catholic College's Naidoc Day at the end of Term 2.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
