Hunter, Dora

Dora Hunter was raised by two missionaries, Miss Hyde and Miss Butler, firstly at Quorn and then at Eden Hills, South Australia. She started working as a servant in a private home, and later got a job in a kindergarten. Following that, she worked as a Child Care Worker at the Central Methodist Mission in Adelaide for nine years. She did two years’ training in the Aboriginal Task Force at the Institute of Technology in Adelaide, and worked in a Government position as an Aboriginal Community Worker. She has been involved with the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship and the Young People’s Branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She enjoys playing music, and has often played in old people’s homes and children’s homes as well as at church meetings.

Member

• Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia (1889 - )

  Member of the Young People's Branch of the WCTU

Edited Books

• Egan, Rosie (ed.), Angkiku Bultu: Women's Paths, (compiled by Port Adelaide Girls High School students), Queenstown, South Australia, 1994(?). [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• 'Dora Hunter', Aborigines News, vol. 56:5, July-January, 1975. [ Details... ]
• 'Dora Hunter', United Aborigines Messenger, vol. 49, no. 4, 1980. [ Details... ]
• 'Miss Dora Hunter.', Nunga News, November, 1981, p. 8. [ Details... ]

See also

• Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, Adelaide, [1980], 80 pp. [ Details... ]
• Mattingley, Christobel; Hampton, Ken, Survival in our own land : 'Aboriginal' experiences in "South Australia' since 1836; told by Nungas and others, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1988, 339 pp. [ Details... ]