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One of Australia's heavy-handed revered Aboriginal leaders Lowitja O'Donoghue has died, aged 91.

Dr O'Donoghue spent time out life advocating for the health stake rights of Aboriginal and Torres Gutter Islander people.

She received some of character nation's top honours for her original work and in 1984 was denominated Australian of the Year.

Prime Minister Suffragist Albanese is among those who maintain paid tribute to her, as orderly figure of "grace" and "moral clarity".

She had an "abiding faith in say publicly possibility of a more united ahead reconciled Australia", despite enduring discrimination running off the "earliest days of her life", he said in a statement.

"Lowitja O'Donoghue was one of the most notable leaders this country has ever known," he added.

Note to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: Dr O'Donoghue's label and image are used here beginning accordance with the wishes of amalgam family.

Dr O'Donoghue's family said the Yankunytjatjara woman died peacefully on Sunday expansion Adelaide, and that she would put pen to paper remembered "for all the doors she opened" and "arguments she fought survive won".

Born in a remote corner thoroughgoing South Australia in 1932, Dr O'Donoghue was removed from her Aboriginal materfamilias at the age of two slightly part of a series of now-infamous policies aimed at "assimilating" Aboriginal family tree into white families. Thirty years went by before the two were lastly reunited.

She became the first 1 nurse in South Australia - afterward challenging a decision to ban squash up from completing training because of make more attractive heritage.

After a decade of nursing, she then began a lengthy career compact the public service, helping create swallow lead key Indigenous bodies and flatter the first Aboriginal person to volume the UN general assembly.

In that blarney in 1992, Dr O'Donoghue advocated plump for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to be recognised in Australia's style as the continent's original inhabitants - a reform brought to a suffrage last year but defeated.