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Charles Tompson (26 June 1807 – 5 January 1883) [1] was an Australian public servant, and it is claimed he was the first published Australian-born poet. Tompson was born in 1806 in Sydney as the eldest child of Charles Tompson (c1784–1871), a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Boggis. [ 1 ]
Charles Harpur (23 January 1813 – 10 June 1868) was an Australian poet and playwright. He is regarded as "Australia's most important nineteenth-century poet." He is regarded as "Australia's most important nineteenth-century poet."
Indigenous Australian literature is the fiction, plays, poems, essays and other works authored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. While a letter written by Bennelong to Governor Arthur Phillip in 1796 is the first known work written in English by an Aboriginal person, David Unaipon was the first Aboriginal author to ...
In a review of an 1899 edition of Poems by Charles Harpur in Freeman's Journal, the writer opined: " 'The Creek of the Four Graves' is a noteworthy performance not only in Australian verse, but also in modern English literature. An affected fad of the local bardling is local colour, but to use it properly he should study the way Harpur has used ...
Charles Nelson Perkins AO, usually known as Charlie Perkins (16 June 1936 – 19 October 2000), was an Aboriginal Australian activist, soccer player and administrator. It is claimed he was the first known Indigenous Australian man to graduate tertiary education .
A longstanding advocate for the rights of Indigenous people, Ms Thorpe, though an environmentalist like the King, ultimately left the Australian Greens in 2023 following clashes over the proposed ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Australian poets. It includes poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
The landmark 1967 referendum called by Prime Minister Harold Holt allowed the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people by modifying section 51(xxvi) of the Constitution, and for Aboriginal people to be included when the country does a count to determine electoral representation by repealing section 127. The referendum passed ...