N'arweet
Carolyn Briggs
AM
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Carolyn Briggs conducting a Welcome to Country ceremony in 2018.
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| Alma mater | RMIT University, PhD, 2020 |
| Relatives | Louisa Briggs (great-grandmother) |
N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM is an Aboriginal Australian rights activist. She is a Yaluk-ut Weelam and Boon Wurrung elder, and serves as the Boon Wurrung representative in the City of Port Phillip.
Briggs is the great-granddaughter of Louisa Briggs, who as a child was abducted by seal hunters before later returning to the Kulin nation with her husband, John Briggs, who also survived abduction.[1] Briggs was born in Melbourne.[2]
She first attended Monash University in the 1970s, and completed her Doctorate in Philosophy (Media and Communications) at RMIT University in 2020.[3] In the 1970s, she opened the first Aboriginal child care service in the Dandenong Ranges.[4]
In 2005, she established the Boon Wurrung Foundation, to conduct cultural research, including for the restoration of the Boon Wurrung language.[5] She serves as its chair.[6] Briggs is the Boon Wurrung representative to the City of Port Phillip.[7]
She was awarded the National Aboriginal Elder of the Year in 2011 by the National NAIDOC Committee. She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2005.[8] She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) as part of the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.[9][10]
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