FED: Bonner was a role model for all O Shane

AAP General News (Australia)
02-06-1999
FED: Bonner was a role model for all O Shane

BRISBANE, Feb 6 AAP - Former Senator Neville Bonner, who died yesterday aged 76, was a role
model for an entire generation of Australians, not just Aborigines, ATSIC Commissioner Terry
O'Shane said today.

Mr O'Shane said Mr Bonner's motto had been: "Never give up".

"He fulfilled his job as a Senator with dignity, respect and courage," he said. "He faced
the inevitable outcome of cancer the same …