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The following profile and photos are gratefully published with permission from John's daughter, Ngaree Ah Kit. In some ways, as second-class citizens themselves, Chinese migrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth century had a better understanding of Aboriginal country and custom than many whitefellas were willing to appreciate or understand.

He walked with his companions all the way from there to Mount Isa looking for work, a long and sweltering trek. Nanna-Jane was a Waanyi-Garrawa woman. A year later he was elected Director of the Northern Land Council, and remained in that position until , when he resigned to contest a seat as a member of the Labor Party in the Northern Territory.

I was preselected for an impossible seat for Labor. On the back of successful land rights campaigns, JAK entered the NT parliament as a Labor MLA in after prevailing in the Arnhem by-election, and was appointed as the first ever Indigenous Minister in the Territory, serving in a number of different portfolios including Housing, Local Government, and Sport and Recreation.

In the same way, Aboriginal kids need to learn about and understand the struggles their old people had in establishing civil and political rights.

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