as a blend of "storytelling, dance, music, language, cinematography, and song to tell a creation story alongside the story of two lovers" was being staged at Brown's Mart Theatre in Darwin from 17 to 28 May 2022, at the time of her death. Awards and honours 1986: NAIDOC national and Northern Territory Aboriginal of the Year 2000: Centenary Medal for "services to women, Aborigines, art and music" 2005: Inducted into Northern Territory Indigenous Music Awards Hall of Fame (with husband David) 2006: NT Senior Australian of the Year 2019: Order of Australia Medal for service to the Indigenous community 16 March 2022: Honorary Doctorate by Batchelor Institute, "in recognition of her exceptional contributions to the wellbeing of First Nations peoples throughout her life" Family and music Mills was married to David (also born in 1936) and they had 11 children, with three alive as of 2003. Among her children are the members of musical group the Mills Sisters, who are known for their 1986 recording of Mills' song "Arafura Pearl". The whole family was musical. Parents Kathy and David were both accomplished singer/songwriters and musicians. David played guitar, steel guitar, ukelele, mandolin, and drums, and had an excellent singing voice. Kathy played the ukelele. The children include: Allyson (Ali), the main singer in the family; Robert, who played the guitar;and June, well known in Darwin as a cultural knowledge and Welcome to Country presenter, artist, and songwriter. June released her debut solo album I’ll Be The One on Skinnyfish Music. Mills Sisters The Mills Sisters consisted of: June on guitar; Ali on ukelele; Barbara on tambourine and shakers; Violet on Tbox (bush bass); and with Robin Forscutt on lead guitar. They had their first break in 1982, when they played as the support act for the Bushwackers and Bullamakanka. They later played support gigs for Harry Secombe, Charlie Pride and Tina Turner, and toured to Tamworth, New South Wales, where they earned the Australasian Buskers Award; Alice Springs (where they performed for the Pope; and to Melbourne and Sydney. In film Kathy and her youngest brother, Speedy McGinness, feature in a 1999 documentary film called Wrap Me Up in Paperbark, about their quest to get their mother's remains returned to her traditional Gurindji country, from Darwin cemetery in Larrakia country, where she was buried. A 26-minute documentary film about Mills and her family, entitled Arafura Pearl, was made by Indigenous