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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 is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in the 2017 redistribution, and was won at that year's election by Mark Robinson. It was named after Indigenous activist and poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal. [1] It largely replaces the abolished district of Cleveland.
2: Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame (Longreach) 3: Surfers Paradise: 4: Bundaberg Rum Distillery: 5: Big Pineapple (Nambour) 6: South Bank Parklands (Brisbane) 7: Noosa: 8: Breakfast Creek Hotel (Brisbane) 9: Yatala Pie Shop: 10: Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge: 11: Paronella Park (North Queensland) 12: Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (Brisbane) 13 ...
As an adult, "Our Glad" performed in light opera in the 1920s and was known as "Australia's Queen of Song". She was very active raising funds for charities in World War II. [93] Nancye Hayes, also "Australia's queen of song and dance", [36] performed many leading roles in musicals, including Australian-written musicals, and won many awards. She ...
The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo , Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. [ 1 ]
The duo returned for the film’s 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, alongside fellow original stars Heather Matarazzo, Hector Elizondo and Caroline Goodall. To this day, fans ...
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 ...