Dr. Evelyn Ruth Scott Ao

Late of Cairns. Evelyn passed away peacefully in Cairns on Thursday 21st September, 2017. Born to Melba Devow, a Warrgamay woman from the Herbert River district, and Ishmael (Smiler) Backo, descendant of the South Sea Islanders who were transported here to Australia to work as slave labour in the cane fields during the infamous Blackbirding era. Evelyn became a prominent Social Justice Activist Ed... more