Jackomos, Merle Robertha (1929-)

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Author, Community worker and Aboriginal activist
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Merle Jackomos, of Yorta Yorta descent, grew up at Cummeragunja, New South Wales. During the famous walk-off of the Cummeragunja people who crossed into Victoria in 1939, Merle and her family were amongst those who stayed to make sure that the station was not closed and sold off by the government. She married Alick Jackomos in 1951, and became involved with the Aborigines Advancement League of Victoria. She helped found the National Aboriginal and Islander Women's Council of which she became Victorian vice-president, and the Northcote Aboriginal women's refuge. In 1972 she was elected to the Aboriginal Affairs Advisory Council. She was later appointed director of Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, and in 1981 was elected to the National Aboriginal Conference, of which she remained a member until its abolition in 1985.

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Resources for Merle Robertha Jackomos

Selected resources (11)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Museum of Victoria. Daughters of a Dreaming
    Jackomos, Merle
    [1990]
  2. History of Cummeragunga and MalogaAboriginal Adult Education Project Newsletter 5 : History of Cummeragunga and Maloga
    Jackomos, Merle R
    [1977]
  3. The History of Lake TyersAboriginal Adult Education Project Newsletter 3 4 : The History of Lake Tyers
    Jackomos, Merle R
    [1976]
  4. Australian Aboriginals in the NewsThe Age 9 : Australian Aboriginals in the News
    Jackomos, M
  5. The History of Lake TyersIdentity 1 2 5-8 : The History of Lake Tyers
    Jackomos, Merle
    [1971]
  6. Living Aboriginal History of Victoria: Stories in the Oral Tradition
    Jackomos, A. and Fowell, D.
    [1991]
    Published: Cambridge University Press
  7. The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture
    Horton, David
    [1994]
    Published: Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS
  8. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): Life on an Aboriginal reserve - Cummeragunja
    Biography of Merle Jackomos youth at Cummeragunga An index of selected names from this item is available. To access these names contact the AIATSIS Family History Unit. 7 leaves, [3] leaves of plates; ports. Typescript (photocopy)
    PMS 4638
  9. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): Alick and Merle Jackomos - wedding day at St Augustins
    1 copynegative: b&w; 35mm
    JACKOMOS.A5.BW
  10. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): The Alick Jackomos Collection: historical images from Victoria, 1880 - 1984 (1880 - 1984)
    1,211 copynegatives: b&w; 35mm Jackomos, Alick; deposited 15 October 1985
    JACKOMOS.A4.BW
  11. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): Aborigines Advancement League of Victoria - Group portraits from the Conscience Calling Ball 1961 (1961)
    142 copynegatives: b&w; 35mm Dianne Barwick; deposited 25 October 1985
    BARWICK.D1.BW

Resources by Merle Robertha Jackomos (1)

  1. Life on an Aboriginal reserve - Cummeragunja / by Merle Robertha Jackomos nee Morgan, [1980]
    Jackomos, Merle Robertha, 1929-
    [ Unpublished : 1980 ]
    At AIATSIS Library
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