Jacqui Katona

Jacqui Katona (born 1966 probably in Canberra, Australia ) is an Aboriginal clans from the Gundjehmi Aboriginal tribe of Mirarr who was instrumental in the campaign against the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory with Yvonne Margarula.

Jacqui Katona did not grow up in the outback on, but lived in Cabramurra, Canberra and Hobart and visited the Australian education system. She has a mother who descended from the aboriginal and a Hungarian father. She was at the age of 32 years, Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Gundjehmi Association of Mirarr, the traditional landowners of the area, on which the Kakadu National Park and in the immediate vicinity of the Jabiluka Uranium Mine and the Ranger uranium mine is located. In 1998, the Aborigines had carried out together with environmental organizations for a peaceful blockade of the uranium mine. This blockade was one of the largest blocks in Australia's history.

Jacqui Katona was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in the U.S., as well as Yvonne Margarula for her political activism and protest in 1999.