Dora Hunter worked as an Aboriginal Education Worker. Hunter's mother died when she was an infant and Hunter was brought up by missionaries at Colebrook Home, initially in Quorn then relocated to Eden Hills, a suburb of Adelaide.
Hunter's first job was in domestic help, but she found that her passion was to work with children, which lead Hunter to apply for a job in a kindergarten, and she worked in that field for nine years before taking a position as a Child Care Worker with the Methodist Mission also for nine years. After this time Hunter studied at Adelaide's Institute of Technology, to train as an Aboriginal Community Worker.
Hunter has used her numerous musical talents to volunteer for the aged and for children. She played piano or organ at the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship services. Hunter also belonged to the Young People's Branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; there she spent time educating people on the effects of alcohol abuse.
(Source: Some Aboriginal Women Pathfinders: their difficulties and their achievements, Women's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, [1980], pp 45-49).
