Bettie Fisher

Bettie Fisher ( – 12 May 1976) was an Australian Aboriginal musician and theatre manager of the Jerrinja people.

Early life and education Fisher was born at the Roseby Park Mission, now renamed the Jerrinja, in Orient Point, around 1939. Orient Point is a small village located in the Shoalhaven, on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is on the southern side of the mouth of the Crookhaven River, and adjoins the village of Culburra Beach to the south.

Jerrinja are a coastal "salt-water" peoples who have maintained a strong connection with their country. Her father was Leslie Amburlah and her mother was Christine née Connolly. With Jimmy Little and Freddy Little, she was a member of the first all-Aboriginal show touring New South Wales clubs for six years. Her television appearances included Bandstand on 2 December 1962, singing Up a Lazy River and Basin Street Blues, Under her leadership, the centre offered workshops in modern and traditional dancing, karate, photography, and script writing. Attendants at the wedding included Mum Shirl and Bobbi Sykes. Her ashes are buried at Botany Cemetery.