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Aunty Barbara Nicholson is a Wadi Wadi elder, an activist, teacher, writer and sits on numerous committees, including the South Coast Writers Centre ((SCWC) committee of management. She also chairs the SCWC Aboriginal consultation team. She is the recipient of many awards, including the 2014 NSW Public Schools Nanga Mai Award which celebrates and recognises innovation, excellence and achievement in Aboriginal education in NSW public schools, school communities and throughout the Department of Education and Communities. Also in 2014, she received her Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Wollongong in recognition of her outstanding service to Indigenous scholarship and advocacy at a local, regional and national level and her continuing contribution to the University of Wollongong. Her work has been published widely.

Barbara is active across the spectrum of Aboriginal disadvantage: education, criminal justice, land rights and the Stolen Generation. She worked as a lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at UNSW and UOW, and has taught course work to inmate students at Goulburn Gaol and is a project leader of the Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers’ project, Dreaming Inside, conducting writing workshops for Aboriginal inmates at Junee Correctional Centre. She is part of both the Human Research Ethics Committee at UOW and the Ethics Committee for the Australian Institute Of Criminology in Canberra.