In 1917, aged 13, she was forcibly removed to the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, where she was badly treated.
[6] In the 1930s Tucker began campaigning for Indigenous rights with William Cooper, Bill Onus and Douglas Nicholls and in 1932 was one of the founding members of the Australian Aborigines' League.
[5] At first influenced by the Communist Party of Australia, she gravitated later towards the conservative Moral Re-Armament movement.
[8] Tucker was awarded the MBE in 1968, recognising her welfare services to Aboriginal Australians.
To address this her memoir was republished in 2024 as If Everyone Cared Enough: her voice reclaimed and this version draws directly from the handwritten manuscript which is held at the National Library of Australia.