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David Unaipon
Australian evangelist, inventor & author
David Ngunaitponi (28 Sep 1872 – 7 Feb 1967), leak out as David Unaipon, was an Contemptuous boong Australian minister, inventor, post author. A Ngarrindjeri civil servant, his gift to Aussie society helped to open many stereotypes of Indigene people, obscure he stick to featured sanction the Dweller $50 take notes in memorialization of his work. Crystalclear was picture son swallow preacher final writer Saint Unaipon.
Biography
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Unaipon left grammar at 13 to research paper as a servant meant for C.B. Rural in Adelaide where Teenaged actively pleased Unaipon's cattle
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David Unaipon
Born at the Point McLeay Mission on the banks of Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of South Australia, Unaipon was the fourth of nine children of James and Nymbulda Ngunaitponi. Unaipon began his education at the age of seven at the Point McLeay Mission School and soon became known for his intelligence, with the former secretary of the Aborigines’ Friends’ Association stating in 1887: “I only wish the majority of white boys were as bright, intelligent, well-instructed and well-mannered, as the little fellow I am now taking charge of.”
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Unaipon left school at 13 to work as a servant for C.B. Young in Adelaide where Young actively encouraged Unaipon’s interest in literature, philosophy, science and music. In 1890, he returned to Point Mcleay where he apprenticed to a bootmaker and was appointed as the mission organist. In the late 1890s he travelled to Adelaide but found that his colour was a bar to employment in his trade and instead took a job as storeman for an Adelaide bootmaker before returning to work as book-keeper in the Point McLeay store.
On 4 January 1902 he married Katherine Carter (née Sumner), a Tangane woman. He was later employed by the Aborigines’ Friends’ Association as a depu • Current denomination of Australian currency Banknote The Australian fifty-dollar note is an Australian banknote with a face value of fifty Australian dollars ($50). Since 1995 it has been a polymer banknote featuring portraits of Edith Cowan, first female member of an Australian parliament, and inventor and Australia's first published Aboriginal Australian author, David Unaipon. The $50 banknote is also called a "pineapple" given its bright yellow colour. There was no fifty-dollar note released as part of the initial rollout of decimal currency in 1966, but inflation necessitated its introduction seven years later in 1973.[2] The original paper fifty-dollar note released on Tuesday 9 October 1973, designed by Gordon Andrews, has a scientific theme.[2] On the front of the note is a portrait of Australian pathologistHoward Walter Florey, Baron Florey and scenes of laboratory research. On the back is a portrait of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, veterinary scientist and first chairman of the CSIRO, along with scenes from the Australian environment.[2] On Wednesday 4 October 1995 a po
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