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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 ...
Burnum Burnum became involved in Australian Indigenous rights activism while attending the University of Tasmania in the late 1960s. He continued his activism after becoming a Bahá’í, and successfully campaigned for the skeleton of the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, Truganini, to be removed from display in the Museum of Tasmania.
First Indigenous Australian to become world champion (bantamweight boxing): Lionel Rose. [61] First Indigenous Australian to be named Australian of the Year: Lionel Rose [62] First Indigenous Australian to compete internationally in wrestling: John Kinsella. [63] First Indigenous Australian to become a state champion cyclist: Brian Mansell ...
Alexis Wright FAHA (born 25 November 1950) [2] is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria [3] and for being the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth [4] and in 2024 for Praiseworthy. [5]
While his father, James Unaipon (c.1835-1907), contributed to accounts of Ngarrindjeri mythology written by the missionary George Taplin in South Australia, [4] David Unaipon (1872–1967) provided the first accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by an Aboriginal person, Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines (1924–5), and was the ...
Wright was the author of collections of poetry, including The Moving Image, Woman to Man, The Gateway, The Two Fires, Birds, The Other Half, Magpies, Shadow and Hunting Snake. Her work is noted for a keen focus on the Australian environment, which began to gain prominence in Australian art in the years following World War II.
David Unaipon in 1938. David Ngunaitponi (28 September 1872 – 7 February 1967), known as David Unaipon, was an Aboriginal Australian preacher, inventor, and author. A Ngarrindjeri man, his contribution to Australian society helped to break many stereotypes of Aboriginal people, and he is featured on the Australian $50 note in commemoration of his work.
Moorooboora (c.1758 - 1798) an Eora leader after whom the suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales is named; Moowattin (c.1791 - 1816) guide and assistant to the botanist George Caley. he was the first Aboriginal person to be legally hanged in New South Wales.