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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a 2018 biographical anthology compiled and edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc. [1] It includes 52 short written pieces by Aboriginal Australians from many walks of life and discusses issues like Australian history of colonisation and assimilation, activism, significance of country, culture and language, identity and intersectionality, family ...
In 2018, Cheetham was one of 52 people who contributed to Anita Heiss's book Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia, along with Adam Goodes, Miranda Tapsell, and Celeste Liddle. [14] Cheetham wrote Australia's first requiem based on the frontier wars between First Nations people in south-western Victoria and settlers between 1840–1863. [15]
She contributed a chapter, "Finding Ways Home", to Anita Heiss' Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. [3] In 2019 she and Jonathan Dunk were appointed co-editors of Overland, an established Australian literary journal [4] and in November that year were joint recipients of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. [5]
Peter Sutton FASSA (born 1946) is an Australian social anthropologist and linguist who has, since 1969, contributed to: recording Australian Aboriginal languages; [1] [2] [3] promoting Australian Aboriginal art; [4] [5] mapping Australian Aboriginal cultural landscapes; [6] [7] and increasing societies' general understanding of contemporary Australian Aboriginal social structures [8] [9] and ...
Thomas Weatherall was born on August 22, 2000 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.He is a Kamilaroi man. [1]Weatherall grew up on the Gold Coast and attended Marymount College, where he was an active member of the cultural team, including cultural and mob captain [2] in his final year in 2017. [3]
Leah Maree Purcell AM (born 14 August 1970) is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actress, playwright, film director, and novelist.She made her film debut in 1999, appearing in Paul Fenech's Somewhere in the Darkness, which led to roles in films, such as Lantana (2001), Somersault (2004), The Proposition (2005) and Jindabyne (2006).
Kyah Pam Simon, [1] who is of Aboriginal Australian descent, [2] was born on 25 June 1991 [1] in the western suburbs of Sydney in New South Wales, one of four children.Her mother, Pam, is of the Anaiwan people, while her father, Gordon, is of the Biripi and Kamilaroi peoples.
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 December 1987) is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film The Sapphires and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series Love Child. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series Wolf Creek.