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Oodgeroo Noonuccal (/ ˈ ʊ d ɡ ə r uː ˈ n uː n ə k əl / UUD-gə-roo NOO-nə-kəl; born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, later Kath Walker (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. [1]
In 1837, a tall (6 foot 2) 17 year-old Nunukul, subsequently named Toggery, and a kipper or adolescent initiand called Peermudgeon stowed away on Captain F. Fyan's schooner as it left Amity Point bound for Sydney. [10] On his arrival there, he was hailed as a second Bennelong and was awarded a uniform of military fashion replete with spurs ...
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 1986 2010 699094 Rebetika Songs: Apodimi Compania 1987 2010 138939 "From Little Things Big Things Grow" Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody: 1993 2010 244410 Redfern Park speech: Paul Keating: 1992, Dec. 10 2010 Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits: Alfred Cort Haddon and others ...
He is a Noonuccal Nuugi man and currently Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival. Lisa Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster.
Jack Leonard Davis was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he spent most of his life and later died. [1] He identified with the Noongar people, and he included some of this language into his plays. [1] [2] The first five years of Davis' life were spent on a farm in Waroona, Western Australia with his ten siblings. [1]
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 ...
Papinijuwari, a type of one-eyed giant which feeds on the bodies of the dead and the blood of the sick; Tjilpa-men, significant mythic figures Aranda, Anmatyerre, Kaytetye, Ngalia, Ilpara and Kukatja stories. Tjilpa is the Arrernte word for quoll. Tjinimin, the ancestor of the Australian people.
Gary Rhett Shearston (9 January 1939 – 1 July 2013) was an Australian singer-songwriter and Anglican priest. He was a leading figure of the folk music revival of the 1960s and performed traditional folk songs in an authentic style.