On 5th July 1971, chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget) Coombs, launched the new indigenous magazine Identity at a flash function at the Chevron Hotel in Sydney. Identity survived for about a decade and was at one time edited by the legendary Aboriginal journalist John Newfong.


"Mum Shirl" Smith, editor Barrie Ovenden and Norma Williams

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