Australian Women's Register

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne

Skip to content

Browse Entries

Use Trove to find more resources by/about this Woman

  • Trove

Tripcony, Penny (1942 - )

Born
1942
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Aboriginal Administrator, Community worker, Educator and Research Officer

Summary

Penny Tripcony was born in Brisbane in 1942 and moved to Melbourne in the mid-1960s. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Melbourne in 1975, and a Diploma of Education the following year.

As the administrator of the Aboriginal Cooperative Ltd in Melbourne, she was instrumental in establishing the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria and several other Aboriginal organisations. In the early 1980s she was a Research Officer with the Board before becoming superintendent of Victorian Aboriginal Education Services. She was involved with many community-based Aboriginal organisations in Victoria, and tutored in the Aboriginal Community Organisation course at the Swinburne Institute of Technology.

In 1989, Tripcony returned to Brisbane to become Principal Policy Officer (Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Education) with the state Department of Education. She was also a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Project.

Sources used to compile this entry: Horton, David (ed.). The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Vol. 2, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994, p. 1104.

Published resources

Books

  • Herbert, Jeannie, Learning journeys: Indigenous teachers sharing their success stories, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 2002, 77 pp. Details

Conference Proceedings

  • Yatha: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Teacher Education, Queensland, Board of Teacher Registration, Board of Teacher Registration, Brisbane, 1993. Details

Journal Articles

  • Tripcony, Penny, 'Too obvious to see: Aboriginal spirituality and cosmology', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol. 2, no. 4, 1999, pp. 7-14. Details
  • Tripcony, Penny, 'The Commonwealth Referendum of 1967 and Australian Indigenous citizenship : an interpretation of historical events', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues (1998), vol. 4, no. 2, 2001, pp. 26-33. Details

Online Resources

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
  • 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

Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon

Created: 1 June 2005, Last modified: 15 January 2009

Comments

Leave a comment

Comment guidelines

(required)
(required)

Site-wide information and acknowledgements

National Foundation for Australian Women The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre

http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1203b.htm

The Australian Women's Register is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License