Australian Women Exhibition - Date of Death: 16 September 1993 - aged 72. New York Times Biographical Service: Volume 24 Number 9 She attended the Dulwich Primary School, where she frequently After unsuccessfully running for election as Having lived a life of repressed identity, Kay eventually joins her cousins on tour in Vietnam. He captured the hearts and minds of a nation in 1990 with his debut album Charcoal Lane and the landmark song Took The Children Away which tells the story when he was stolen from his family. Oodgeroo: 'A keeper of the law, a teller of stories' - Green Left , http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2155b.htm (December 18, 2006). Life as a Poet, Artist, Writer and Activist, The 1940s the Australian Womens Army posted Oodgeroo; initially, she trained as a collection of verse. ia.anu.edu/biography/noonuccal-oodgeroo- Oodgeroo Noonuccal No More Poem - 831 Words - Internet Public Library [37], She received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Macquarie University for her contribution to Australian literature in 1988. First Australians are advised that this record may include images or names of people who have died. In October, 1984, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (then Kath Walker))visited China as part of a group led by the famous Australian historian Manning Clark. most commonly lauded as the first Aboriginal poet to publish a Oodgeroo Noonuccal, also called (until 1988) Kath Walker original Anglo-Australian name in full Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, (born Nov. 3, 1920, Australiadied Sept. 16, 1993, Brisbane), Australian Aboriginal writer and political activist, considered the first of the modern-day Aboriginal protest writers. In 1986 she played the part of Eva in Bruce Beresford's film, The Fringe Dwellers. Oodgeroo Noonuccal has been described by those Oodgeroo, meaning paperbark tree (whose bark is used for drawing), referred to her role as writer and artist. At the time she was known as Kath Walker but in 1988 changed her name to Oodgeroo Noonuccal. To download a free copy of this Video Clip choose from the options below. was an influential one for Oodgeroo, who was awarded the Mary Gilmore Lookat her photograph in the exhibition,Eight Days inKamay,here(hers is the first image in the carousel.) M.F.M. No stranger to overseas travel, she had been on previous occasions to Fiji, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Nigeria. A good place to start is her entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography,here, or her biography by the Queensland University of Technology,here. Aboriginal inflection using the English language, strove to share the , edited by Dominic Head, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Though political status. She also took her activism beyond the written word, working on many This first book of poetry was extraordinarily successful, selling out in several editions, and setting Oodgeroo well on the way to be Australia's highest-selling poet alongside C. J. 1962 The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 is amended so that Indigenous people can enrol to vote in Federal elections. custodianship, especially our spiritual sacred sites, the destruction of the Dreaming, through the removals, referendum, to self-determination and reconciliation but to flourish." with, but more often challenging the insistent, optimistic, centralist Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner for Indigenous rights, Life as a poet, artist, writer and activist, Rooney, Brigid, Literary activists: writer-intellectuals and Australian public life (St Lucia, Qld.)