Today we are going to have a look at an Australian artist Lisa Marie Bellear born in Melbourne 2 May 1961 passed away on the 5th of July 2006. 

Lisa was an indigenous woman Goernpil from the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Queensland. 

Lisa was a poet, Photographer, Spokesperson dramatist, activist, comedian, and broadcaster

Lisa had an Uncle his name was Bob Belleair Australia first Aboriginal Judge, and there was also Sol Bellear who worked in and to find the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in Redfern in 1972

Lisa was adopted into a white family as a baby and they told her she had Polynesian blood. As an adult, she explored her Aboriginal roots.

Bellear died unexpectedly at her home in Melbourne. She was 45 years old.

Women's Liberation

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