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The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) – world's first feature-length film 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 ...
The study revives the tradition of C. E. W. Bean, Australia's official historian of World War I, who focused his narrative on the men in the line rather than the strategies of generals. [citation needed] Gammage corresponded with 272 Great War veterans, and consulted the personal records of another 728, mostly at the Australian War Memorial.
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 ...
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. A, D 1937 UK A Romance in Flanders: Lost on the Western Front: Maurice Elvey: Set during the First World War with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders. D, R 1937 UK
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]
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) [1] is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor.He is best known for his historical fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982.
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 ...
I, the Aboriginal is an Australian book and television film about the life of Aboriginal Australian Phillip Roberts (or Waipuldanya).. The 1962 book, written in first person, is described as the autobiography of Waipuldanya, a full-blood Aboriginal man of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in the Northern Territory, as told to Douglas Lockwood.