Identity
After starting her public service career she placed increasing public emphasis on her Aboriginal heritage rather than on her Irish heritage, and became actively involved in Aboriginal politics. Lowitja was a Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Congress for a short time in the early 1980s before it was dissolved due to internal disputes on its direction.
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