Michelle Sue "Mickey" Dewar OAM (1 January 1956 – 23 April 2017) was an Australian historian who specialised in the history of the Northern Territory.
She developed the popular Cyclone Tracy exhibition and was also in charge of heritage management of the Fannie Bay Gaol and Lyons Cottage historic sites.
Her topic was: An examination of the characteristics and attributes of post-war Darwin, through a detailed and multidisciplinary study of Commonwealth public housing policy.
The paper was presented at National Archives in Canberra on 28 October 2008 titled Darwin – No Place Like Home : A history of Australia’s northern capital in the 1950s through a study of housing.
[6] Dewar died on 23 April 2017 aged 61 from an aggressive form of motor neurone disease.