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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 ...
Philip McLaren – author, academic and artist; Olga Miller – historian, artist and author; Sally Morgan – writer; Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) – poet, author, playwright (note: Johnson's Aboriginality is contested by many) Big Bill Neidjie – last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language; Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) – poet; Bruce ...
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]
William Edward Harney (18 April 1895 – 31 December 1962), best known as Bill Harney, was an Australian writer.Most of his early life was an itinerant one of poverty and hardship, punctuated by tragedy, spent mainly in the outback.
At first influenced by the Communist Party of Australia, she gravitated later towards the conservative Moral Re-Armament movement. [6] This deepened with an eight-month stay at Mackinac Island . In the 1960s she founded the United Council of Aboriginal and Islander Women and in 1964 she was the first Indigenous appointee to the Victorian ...
Luggenemenener (c.1800 - 1837) Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who survived the Black War and was taken captive by John Batman who shot many of her people; Tommy McRae (c.1835 - 1901) a Wahgunyah man and artist; Mannalargenna (c.1770 - 1835) Tasmanian Aboriginal leader of the Plangermaireener people
Tony Birch FAHA (born c.1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous ...
Anita Marianne Heiss AM (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees.