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First Aboriginal person and first woman to become a permanent head of ministry in Australia: Patricia O'Shane; 1982. First Indigenous Australian woman to gain a private pilot's licence: Virginia Wykes. [91] First Indigenous Australian man to play at Wimbledon: Ian Goolagong (mixed doubles with sister Evonne). [92]
Kirli Saunders – author and poet; Jared Thomas – writer, and arts curator; Margaret Tucker – activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations; David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author; James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher; Ellen van Neerven ...
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). [ 6 ] There was a flourishing of Aboriginal literature from the 1970s through to the 1990s, coinciding with a period of political advocacy and focus on Indigenous Australian ...
Moreton-Robinson was the first Aboriginal person to be appointed to a mainstream lecturing position in women's studies in Australia, was Australia's first Indigenous Distinguished Professor, and the first Indigenous scholar from outside the US to be elected as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Other Side of the Frontier, published in 1981, was ground-breaking in that it was the first major work by an historian to write Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective. [3] In many books and academic articles Reynolds has sought to explain his view of the high level of violence and conflict involved in the colonisation of ...
In 1968, boxer Lionel Rose, the first Aboriginal Australian athlete to win a world championship was proclaimed Australian of the Year and thronged by 250,000 adoring fans on the streets of Melbourne. [209] [208] That same year, artist Albert Namatjira (1902–1959) was honoured with a postage stamp.
Douglas Nicholls (1906 - 1988) the first Aboriginal Australian to be knighted and hold a vice-regal office Charles Perkins (1936 - 2000) a pioneering Indigenous activist, sportsman and academic Hetty Perkins (c. 1895 - 1979) was an Eastern Arrernte elder who worked for The Bungalow ; she is the mother of Charles Perkins
In 1995, Pattel-Gray graduated with a PhD in Religion from the University of Sydney, with a thesis entitled "The Great White Flood: Racism in Australia; Critically Appraised from an Aboriginal Historico-Theological Viewpoint". She was the first Aboriginal person to earn a PhD from the University. [2] In 1997, she received a Doctor of Divinity ...