Margo Neale

Margo Ngawa Neale is an Australian author, historian and curator. She is of Aboriginal and Irish descent and is a Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri woman. Her First Nations name is ''Ngawa Gurrawa'' and it means "talkative but knowledgeable".

Neale is based in Canberra and is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University and is the senior Indigenous curator and as the principle advisor to the director or the National Museum of Australia. She has also served as the Head of the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia at the museum.

As a curator Neale has pioneered major exhibitions including the international solo exhibition of the works of Emily Kame Kngwarreye in 2008 as well as the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition.

She is an internationally recognised expert on Songlines and says that they are "the history of Australia, written by Aboriginal people recorded millennia before white man arrived". Provided by Wikipedia