Dr Jackie Higgins
AM FAHA – Patron of Sisters Inside
Dr Jackie Higgins
AM FAHA – Patron of Sisters Inside
Meet Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA
Patron of Sisters Inside
Jackie is a Bidjara/Pitjara, Birri Gubba and Juru woman from Queensland.
Jackie is an historian and author who has over four decades of knowledge and experience in Aboriginal Affairs. She has worked across community, government and non-government fields and is well versed in leadership, language and governance.
Previous positions have included Co-Chair Treaty Advancement Committee, Co-Chair National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, Reconciliation Australia.
Others include Co-Chair Incorrections Report, Change The Record, Disability Royal Commission First Nations Advisory Group, Stolen Generations National Inquiry, Chair Domestic Violence Council Qld.
She is Patron of Reconciliation Qld, NATSIWA, First Nations Australia Writer’s Network, Black Rainbow.
Jackie’s desire is to see true justice for her people.
We are so excited and honoured to have Jackie as Sisters Inside’s Patron.
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Sisters Inside is a dynamic organisation that supports criminalised women and girls, and their children, both inside and outside prison. We have achieved remarkable success in assisting women and their children to develop a safe, secure, violence-free life, and stay out of prison.
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