Connie Bush

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Constance Doreen Bush MBE (1919–1997) was an Australian Aboriginal health worker. She was born in 1919 in Borroloola. Her mother Norah was Garrwa and her father Tom Turner was a mounted police constable. Connie and her mother were separated in 1924 and never saw each other again. She grew up at the mission on Groote Eylandt. A street in Alyangula, Northern Territory, is named after her. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1981 for services to Aboriginal women. In 1990, she published several short works, including two autobiographies, in a special issue of Australian Short Stories on Aboriginal Short Stories edited by Bruce Pascoe; the volume was dedicated to her and to Maureen Watson.