Bill Monks was the husband of Rosalie Kunoth-Monks who spent 10 years from 1960 as an Anglican nun in the Community of the Holy Name in Melbourne. She then left the order, married Bill Monks, and began employment at the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, setting up the first home in Victoria for Aboriginal children.
By 2008, she had returned to the Utopia homelands, 260 kilometers (160 mi) north-east of Alice Springs, and in that year became president of Barkly Shire. In August 2008, in Canberra for Amnesty International, she denounced federal government intervention in the Northern Territory as a “huge violation of human rights”, displacing “more Indigenous people from their traditional lands, depriving them of opportunities to speak their native language, and severing links with their culture.
Rosalie Knith -Monks was married to her husband, Bill Monks in 1970. The couple has a wonderful daughter, Ngarla Kunoth-Monks, and grandchildren, Amelia and Ruby. All of them are recognized to comply with her mother and father’s footprints and are devoted to social justice and direct motion on the native stage.