Background
Munro was born to parents Les and Agnes, who were Aboriginal Land Rights activists. She grew up on Erambie Mission, near the town of Cowra, New South Wales.
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Education
She successfully completed an arts / law degree at the University of New South Wales.
Career
She has been at the forefront of the fight for Aboriginal housing at The Block in Sydney, and started the In 1972, Munro"s parents took her to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, where they joined the protest by sleeping in tents. At the age of 17, she moved to the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern. Together, she and Lyall moved to an AHC-run house in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, where they raised two children.
In 1978, Munro began work as a trainee bookkeeper at the Aboriginal Children"s Service in Sydney, eventually becoming Administrator of the organisation.
In the Australian federal election, 1998, she stood as an independent in the electoral Division of Sydney. On May 26, 2014 Munro launched to reclaim affordable Aboriginal housing for the former residents of the area known as the The Block.
The Embassy despite a standoff with the Aboriginal Housing Company which has evicted all the former Aboriginal tenants is continuing to occupy The Block. In February 2015 Aboriginal Housing Company chairman Mick Mundine threatened to commence the eviction of the protesters led by Munro.
In Sydney"s major newspaper, Daisy Dumas reported that the standoff between the protestors and the Housing Company intensified in 2015 with the matter before the Supreme Court for judgment and with the State Attorney General alerted.
After more than 400 days of the, Munro declared victory when the Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion intervened on the Embassy"s behalf and brokered a peaceful resolution between the Housing Company and the Embassy. Scullion committed $5 million of federal funds to the site for 62 affordable Aboriginal housing units.
