Where did Neville Bonner grow up and live?

📍Ukerebagh Island, Tweed River, NSW 2486, Australia

1922 – 1927

“I was born under a palm tree on Ukerebagh Island, a scrap of land in the Tweed River near the Queensland border, in 1922. We had almost nothing — a Jagera family living on the river's edge, my grandmother my real teacher, for I had barely two years of school in my whole childhood. When I was about five we left the island to camp with my grandparents on the banks of the Richmond. I cut cane, cleared scrub, herded stock. From that river-mouth poverty I would one day walk into the Australian Senate — the first Aboriginal person ever to sit in our Parliament. But it began here, on the water, with my grandmother's lessons.”

👍 LovedMy grandmother, who taught me everything school never could, and the river country I was born into

👎 DislikedThe poverty, and the barely two years of schooling an Aboriginal boy was allowed in those days

Map showing where Neville Bonner lived — Ukerebagh Island, Tweed River, NSW 2486, Australia

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Neville Bonner's home at Ukerebagh Island, Tweed River, NSW 2486, Australia

📍 Street view today

Sources: Wikipedia: Neville Bonner