Annie Lock

She worked across Australia for nearly 35 years and played an important role in bringing the Coniston Massacre to national public attention.

[2] For this reason she was entirely dependent on direct donations to offer shelter, food, medical treatment and education to the people living there.

[6] The mission at Mer Ilpereny closed in 1928 when, due to severe drought the water supply dried up and the site was abandoned.

[4][7][8] In 1929, Lock gave evidence at the Inquiry and achieved national notoriety when Hermann Adolph Heinrich, a missionary from Ntaria (Hermannsburg), declared that she had told him she would be "happy to marry a black".

[11][12][13][14] One of the findings of the inquiry was to partially blamed racial unrest in the area on "a woman Missionary living amongst naked blacks thus lowering their respect for the whites".

She married widower James Johansen in Port Augusta on 15 September 1937[16] and resigned from the mission organisation and travelled with her minister husband; despite suffering from diabetes.