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  2. Bill Gammage - Wikipedia

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    The study revives the tradition of C. E. W. Bean, Australia's official historian of World War I, who focused his narrative on the men in the line rather than the strategies of generals. [citation needed] Gammage corresponded with 272 Great War veterans, and consulted the personal records of another 728, mostly at the Australian War Memorial.

  3. List of Indigenous Australian writers - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. List of Australian films - Wikipedia

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    Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear (1911) – one of the first films to depict Indigenous Australians; The Sentimental Bloke (1919) – made by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, one of the first, best known and most successful silent era films with a first-person narrative, [1] the best-known partnership in Australian film at that time

  5. Richard Frankland - Wikipedia

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    It was the first film by an Indigenous director to win an AFI Award. [4] It screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the category of Un Certain Regard, [5] [6] and was broadcast nationally in Australia on SBS TV. [7] He wrote and directed Harry's War (1999), a feature film based on his uncle's role in World War II on the Kokoda Trail.

  6. Francis Pegahmagabow - Wikipedia

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    Francis Pegahmagabow MM & two bars (/ ˌ p ɛ ɡ ə ˈ m æ ɡ ə b oʊ / peg-ə-MAG-ə-boh; March 9, 1891 – August 5, 1952) was an Ojibwe soldier, politician and activist in Canada. He was the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War.

  7. List of Indigenous Australian firsts - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Sam Worthington and Jason Clarke to Star in ‘First Warrior ...

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    Warwick Thornton, one of Australia’s leading filmmakers, is confirmed to direct “First Warrior,” an epic about Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy. The creative, on-screen and producing ...

  9. Arthur Upfield - Wikipedia

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    Born in England, Upfield moved to Australia in 1911 and fought with the Australian military during the First World War. Following his war service, he travelled extensively throughout Australia, obtaining a knowledge of Australian Aboriginal culture that he would later use in his written works. In addition to writing detective fiction, Upfield ...