Diana Mudgee

Diana Mudgee ( - 4 May 1902) was a Wiradjuri Aboriginal Australian woman from Mudgee, New South Wales who raised ten children and gained ownership of over 500 acres of land, which according to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies was an unusual achievement for a woman at that time.

Life Born in the 1820s, Mudgee lost her family at a young age in a colonial massacre south of Mudgee during the period where martial law was declared in Bathurst and the surrounding areas of Wiradjuri country. After this, she was sent to as an orphan to work on the Cox family properties, whose former superintendent, Theophilus Chamberlain, instigated many of the punitive expeditions against the local Aboriginal people including the massacre of Mudgee's family. At one of the Cox properties she was given the name Diana Mudgee as part of her working as a servant; she had a Wiradjuri name, Emanjili, that her employers refused to acknowledge.

In her early teens, Mudgee had a daughter with James Knight, who distanced himself from Mudgee after her birth.

Mudgee died on 4 May 1902 in Piambong at the estimated age of 76.