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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 ...
John Newfong (3 November 1943 – 30 May 1999) was an Aboriginal Australian journalist and writer. A descendant of the Ngugi people of Moreton Bay , he was the first Aboriginal person to be employed as a journalist in the mainstream print media in Australia .
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]
Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear (1911) – one of the first films to depict Indigenous Australians; The Sentimental Bloke (1919) – made by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, one of the first, best known and most successful silent era films with a first-person narrative, [1] the best-known partnership in Australian film at that time
For this he is known as the first Aboriginal author. 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] Sally Morgan's novel My Place was considered a breakthrough memoir in terms of bringing indigenous stories to wider ...
Manganinnie is an AFI Award-winning 1980 film which follows the journey of Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who searches for her tribe with the company of a lost white girl named Joanna. Based on Beth Roberts' novel of the same name, it was directed by John Honey and was the first feature film to be financed by the short-lived ...
Kevin John Gilbert (10 July 1933 – 1 April 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. A Wiradjuri man, Gilbert was born on the banks of the Lachlan River in New South Wales. Gilbert was the first Aboriginal playwright and printmaker.
Utopia is a 2013 documentary film written, produced and presented by John Pilger and directed by Pilger and Alan Lowery, that explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians in modern Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The title is derived from the Aboriginal homeland community of Utopia, Northern Territory , one of the poorest and most desolate areas ...