Jackomos, Merle Robertha (1929 - )

Merle Jackomos, of Yorta Yorta descent, grew up at Cummeragunja, New South Wales. She was among the Cummeragunja people who walked off the station and crossed into Victoria in 1939. She married Alick Jackomos in 1951, and became involved with the Aborigines Advancement League of Victoria. She helped found the National Aboriginal and Islander Women’s Council of which she became Victorian vice-president, and the Northcote Aboriginal women’s refuge. In 1972 she was elected to the Aboriginal Affairs Advisory Council. She was later appointed director of Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, and in 1981 was elected to the National Aboriginal Conference, of which she remained a member until its abolition in 1985.

• Morgan, Merle (maiden name)

Journal Articles

• Jackomos, Merle, 'The History of Lake Tyers', Identity, vol. 1, no. 2, 1971, pp. 5-8. [ Details... ]
• Jackomos, Merle, 'Museum of Victoria. Daughters of a Dreaming', 1990, pp. 7-8. [ Details... ]
• Jackomos, Merle R, 'The History of Lake Tyers', Aboriginal Adult Education Project Newsletter, no. 3, 1976, p. 4. [ Details... ]
• Jackomos, Merle R, 'History of Cummeragunga and Maloga', Aboriginal Adult Education Project Newsletter, no. 5, 1977. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Jackomos, M, 'Australian Aboriginals in the News', The Age, 2 October 1981, p. 9. [ Details... ]

See also

• Horton, David (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (xxxiii, 1340 p.) pp. [ Details... ]
• Jackomos, A. and Fowell, D., Living Aboriginal History of Victoria: Stories in the Oral Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1991, 203 pp. [ Details... ]