Maureen Logan

Bundjalung Elder Aunty Maureen Logan was born in Murwillumbah and has spent most of her life living and working on Coodjingburra country. Aunty Maureen has led a diverse life, allowing her to expand into fields that few do. Once of those fields was working with Metro Screens, where she wrote and directed two short films – Our Boat which tells a story from her childhood growing up in Fingal and Susan’s Birthday Party, a story about identity and acceptance.

Another area of expertise for Aunty Maureen has been through her work to achieve outcomes for people living with disability for more than 20 years. This has been through her involvement with the Peak Body – First People’s Disability Network for whom she is a Board member – and it’s forerunner First People’s Disability Network Australia. This work has enabled her to achieve human rights for Indigenous people living with disabilities at the highest level in Australia and Internationally, including the United Nations.

Aunty Maureen has held many positions within Community organisations and has been a member of the Tweed Byron Local Aboriginal Land Council for decades. She is a board member for HART Services, an organisation committed to providing innovative services to address the growing challenges of aging and isolation in regional communities. Aunty Maureen was a founding member of the Tweed Women’s Craft Group that meets weekly at Minjungbal Museum. She identified the need that there were senior women within the community who needed an apolitical space so they could meet, do crafts and yarn.

Aunty Maureen makes herself available for broad community cultural competency education in schools and workplaces. She is a fierce matriarch to her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and is deeply committed to community and Aboriginal people around Australia.