Jackie Huggins
Indigenous Australian historian and writer · Australia · On the map · Writers · Born 1956 · age 70
Jacqueline Gail "Jackie" Huggins is an Aboriginal Australian author, historian, academic, and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Australians.
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She has been active in the reconciliation movement, and was co-commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families from 1995 to 1997. Until 2017, she was deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit at the University of Queensland. She co-chaired the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples until 2019, when she was appointed co-chair of Queensland Government's Treaty Working Group and Eminent Treaty Process Panel. She has also served on many other boards and organisations in various capacities, and published several books. In April 2025, Huggins was appointed as the inaugural Elder-in-residence at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
