Douglas Nicholls
Sir Douglas Ralph Doug Nicholls, KCVO OBE was a prominent Aboriginal Australian from the Yorta Yorta people. He was a professional athlete, Churches of Christ pastor and church planter, ceremonial officer and a pioneering campaigner for reconciliation.
Douglas Nicholls was born onDecember 1906 on the Cummeragunja Reserve in New South Wales. Schooling at the mission was provided to Gradestandard and strict religious principles were emphasised. When he was eight, he saw his 16yearold sister Hilda forcibly taken from his family by the police and taken to the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls where she was trained to becoming a domestic servant.
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