Doseena Fergie, was born and raised on Thursday Island, and is a proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman. In March 2016, she was admitted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her work in nursing and community health. Doseena worked as a nurse and midwife in Brisbane, as a healthcare worker in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, and came to Melbourne two decades ago to work with an Indigenous health team in Healesville. She lectures in nursing at the Australian Catholic University and has submitted her PhD thesis on post-natal depression in Aboriginal women. (Source : The Age, 7 March 2016.)
