Chicka Dixon
Charles Dixon , also called Charles Chicka Dixon , (* 1928 ; † March 20, 2010 in Sydney) is a political activist of the Aborigines of Australia.
Life
Little is known about his life. At a young age he took part in a political event in 1946. In the 1950s he lived in Redfern , a suburb of Sydney . In the 1970s she worked on Sydney Harbor where she contracted a lung disease called asbestosis . There is a 27-minute DVD about his political life.
politics
In the 1960s, he was spokesman for the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders . He supported the referendum for Aboriginal rights in 1967 and the construction of the tent embassy in front of the Old Parliament House in the Australian capital of Canberra in 1972. In 1983 Dixon was voted Aboriginal of the year . In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate for his social commitment from the University of New South Wales .
In November 2007, it became known that the Australian Security Intelligence Organization was monitoring him and had put on more than 150 pages of information on him.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dixon, Chicka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dixon, Charles Chicka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Aboriginal political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1928 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 2010 |
| Place of death | Sydney |