Iris Burgoyne

Iris Burgoyne was a South Australian author and Kokatha (Aboriginal) elder who spent many years on the native title advisory council.[1]

She was born in 1936 at Koonibba Mission on the western Eyre Peninsula and after resettling and fostering many youth she died in 2014 in Port Lincoln.[2]

Bibliography

Personal

Her grandson Shaun Burgoyne is a feted AFL footballer.[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Iris Burgoyne". Magabala Books. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 Fisher, Harry (23 September 2014). "Shaun Burgoyne motivated to win AFL grand final after the passing of his nanna". Port Lincoln Times. Retrieved 8 December 2015.


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