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Indigenous rights trailblazer Lowitja O'Donoghue dies

Indigenous rights pioneer Lowitja O'Donoghue has died at her Adelaide home at the age of 91. (HANDOUT/LOWITJA INSTITUTE COMMUNICATION)

Aboriginal rights trailblazer Lowitja O'Donoghue, who helped inspire some of the greatest changes to Indigenous recognition in Australia's history, has died at home in Adelaide. She was 91.

The Yankunytjatjara woman played a key role in the 1967 referendum, lobbied the Keating government to recognise Indigenous land ownership through the native title laws and advised on the apology to the stolen generation.

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