Pioneer Indigenous doctor wins top WA gong
Child and adolescent psychiatrist Professor Helen Milroy named WA Australian of the Year
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The nation’s first recognised Indigenous medical doctor, psychiatrist Professor Helen Milroy, has been named Western Australia’s 2020 Australian of the Year.
A descendant of the Palyku people from WA’s Pilbara region, Professor Milroy became a doctor in 1983 and is one of Australia’s foremost child and adolescent psychiatrists.