Iris Burgoyne

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Iris Burgoyne (born Yumadoo Kochallalya) was a South Australian author and Kokatha (Aboriginal) elder who spent many years on the native title advisory council.{{Cite web |url=https://www.magabala.com/author/index/details/id/45 |title=Iris Burgoyne |publisher=Magabala Books |access-date=9 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210221550/https://www.magabala.com/author/index/details/id/45 |archive-date=10 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|date=2 Nov 2012|title=Author record, Iris Burgoyne|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A71226|access-date=2020-12-12|publisher=AustLit}}

She was inaugural chairwoman for the Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service.{{Cite web |url=http://ahcsa.org.au/app/uploads/mp/files/newsletters/files/ahcsa-news-november-2013.pdf |title=AHCSA News |date=Nov 2013 |publisher=Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia Inc. |access-date=20 March 2018 |archive-date=18 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318130640/https://ahcsa.org.au/app/uploads/mp/files/newsletters/files/ahcsa-news-november-2013.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.portlincolntimes.com.au/story/1785152/photos-health-service-celebrates-20-years/ |title=Health Service Celebrates 20 Years |date=19 Sep 2013 |publisher=Port Lincoln Times |access-date= 20 March 2018}}

She was born in 1936 at Koonibba Mission on the western Eyre Peninsula and after resettling and fostering many youth she died in 2014 in Port Lincoln.