GLADYS ELPHICK  (1904-1988)

1904    Aboriginal community leader, was born  in Adelaide .

1973  She was an Australian Aboriginal women of Kaurna and Ngadjuri descent , best           known as the founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Woman of South Australia

Mrs. Glady was raised the Point Pearce Mission on the York Peninsula .
  

1922  She had married with Walter Hughesand .

1937  Her husband death , Gladys moved to Adelaide and worked as a domestic.

1940  Elphick had married Frederick Joseph Elphick. Frederick was a soldier.

1940 Gladys  joined the Aborigines Advancement league of South Australia .

1967 The Council was  active in campaigning for the  Referendum.

1971  Gladys was appended a member of the order of the British Emprie (MBE) .1973 Mrs Elphick became the founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of      South Australia .

1977 She co-founded The Aboriginal Medical Service of South Australia  

  

1988 Gladys death  in  Adelaide .

2003 the Aboriginal women's group advised the International Women's Day Committee Presedent the inaugural Gladys Elphick award.

FRED HOLLOWS

• 1919    He was born in Duredin New Zealand
• 1965    He them did post-graduate work in Wales before moving in 1965 to Australia ,where he                became assoicate professor of ophthalmology at the university of New Souht Wales.
• 1975 Fred Hollow's s first wife died.
• 1975 he started the National Trachoma and eye health program.
• 1988 Fred Hollows interwievied by Peter Read.
• 1990 Fred Hollows received the Australian of the year award for threating many with curable blindness in many third ward countries. 
• 1990 he received the Human rights medal in 1990 for his hard work in providing beter eyesight in third words countires.
• 1991 Fred Hollows visited eritca helped a lot of people in need of eye care .Fred's trip to Vietnam helped about 3000 people gettin cure from their eye diseases.
• 1992 fred set up the Fred Hollows Foundation in 1992 which contiuned the work that . it started and fullfiilled his dream. since 1992 Fred Hollows foundation have been setting up eye  care clinics in third word countries .
• 1993 He died onthe 10 of February ,1993 aged 64 in sydney and he was buried in the town of Bourke.