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Photo of Aileen Corpus, 1973
Aileen Corpus (b. 1950) was born in Darwin and raised in the Retta Dixon Children’s Home. Her tribal name is Ne'eri of the Wagiman and Nangumerri peoples of the Northern Territory. She has publshed in various magazines, acted in the 1973 ABC-TV production Basically Black, the first all-Aboriginal television show in Australia, and was a member of the Aboriginal Delegation to the Peoples Republic of China in 1974. She works as a community arts officer and lives in Darwin.
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