| Born, of Lebanese descent, in
Narrandera in the Riverina district of New South Wales, and
educated at Narrandera Public School and Sydney Girls High
School, Marie Bashir gained her bachelor degrees in medicine
and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.
Dr Bashir taught at the Universities of Sydney and New South
Wales, increasingly working with children's services, psychiatry
and mental health services, and indigenous health programs.
At the time of her appointment as Governor of New South Wales,
she was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University
of Sydney (a post she took up in 1993); Area Director of Mental
Health Services Central Sydney (from 1994); and Senior Consultant
to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern (from 1996) and
to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Kempsey. |
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