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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 ...
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (28 March 1904 – 23 August 1996) [1] was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography If Everyone Cared, in 1977; a new edition of this work was published in 2024. [2] [3]
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]
National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week NITV News Update , with programming including other news and current affairs programmes, sports coverage, entertainment ...
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 ...
Douglas Nicholls (1906 - 1988) the first Aboriginal Australian to be knighted and hold a vice-regal office Charles Perkins (1936 - 2000) a pioneering Indigenous activist, sportsman and academic Hetty Perkins (c. 1895 - 1979) was an Eastern Arrernte elder who worked for The Bungalow ; she is the mother of Charles Perkins
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.
The channel also occasionally broadcasts mainstream feature films; in 2002, the network experimented with adding a sweepstakes known as Bingo and a Movie during commercial breaks. [9] [10] APTN primarily broadcasts programming produced in English, French, and Indigenous languages, such as Cree and Inuktitut. All Indigenous-language programming ...