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  2. List of Indigenous Australian writers - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Reg Saunders - Wikipedia

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    Saunders was born near Purnim on the Aboriginal Reserve at Framlingham in western Victoria on 7 August 1920. [1] He was a member of the Gunditjmara people. [2] His father, Chris, was a veteran of the First World War, having served as a machine gunner in the Australian Imperial Force.

  4. Indigenous Australian literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Richard Broome - Wikipedia

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    Richard Laurence Broome, AM, FAHA (born 1 October 1948) is an Australian historian, academic, and emeritus professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne.He is known as an authority on Aboriginal history in Australia.

  6. Australian literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of Indigenous Australian historical figures - Wikipedia

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    Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier who served in World War II. Rona Glynn (1936 - 1965) was the first Indigenous Australian school teacher and nurse in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Jimmy Governor (c. 1875 - 1901) a famous outlaw with his brother Joe Governor

  8. List of Indigenous Australian firsts - Wikipedia

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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]

  9. Donald Thomson - Wikipedia

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    The Goose Hunters of the Arafura Swamp (1937), photo by Donald Thomson, showing Ramingining men on the Arafura Swamp. Donald Finlay Fergusson Thomson OBE (26 June 1901 – 12 May 1970) was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist. he is known for his studies of and friendship with the Pintupi and Yolngu peoples, and for his intervention in the Caledon Bay crisis.