AustLit

Collection of essays and reminiscences, reflecting on all aspects of Oodgeroos career, from the poet and visual artist to the Aboriginal spokesperson, performer, activist, and educator. Includes photographs, examples of her visual art, and a bibliographical checklist compiled by Janine Little.

This is the first collection of poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (originally published as Kath Walker).

'Through her poems, Kath Walker communicates the frustrations of Aborigines in the white world; her poems are brilliant and original.' (Source: GoodReads website)

'Oodgeroo's writing is often a provocative and passionate plea for justice. My People is a collection of poetry and prose and a reminder of Oodgeroo's contribution to indigenous culture and the journey to reconciliation.' (Source: Reading Australia website)

'These poems are anything but motionless. Their emotions cut, determined to map out another possibility, a place of personal and social reconciliation.' (Source: Back cover)

'...These legends are Australia's unwritten history, handed down by word of mouth through countless generations. They tell of the spirit beings, and the animals, plants and landscapes that they created..

'The legends in this book are told by Aborigines from widely different regions of Australia: Tasman, the Gold Coast area, and Stradbroke Island...' (Source: Back cover)

'We all love legends. Imagine the mysterious magic of the Australian bush and the sea. The are ancient, and so are their Aboriginal legends.'

'Each tribe has different legends about the land. For many, many years they have repeated them, passing the legends down from generation to generation by word of mouth, telling of spirits being, and the animals, plants and landscapes that they created.'

'The legends in this book are told by Aborigines from widely different regions of Australia: Tasmania, Western Australia and Stradbroke Island.

Redfern Now is 'the first contemporary TV drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.'

Source: ABC Television website.

'Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2014, Bangarra – Australia’s multi award winning dance theatre company – tells the story of Patyegarang, the inspirational journey of a potent Indigenous spirit alive in Australia’s past and present.'

'As the colonial fleet arrived on Eora country in the late 18th Century, Patyegarang befriended the colony’s timekeeper, Lieutenant William Dawes, gifting him her language in an extraordinary display of trust and friendship, which now inspires our imaginations about ‘first contact’.

In this important and beautifully written book, Aileen Moreton-Robinson gives us a compelling analysis of white Australian feminism seen through Indigenous Australian women's eyes. She unpacks the unspoken normative subject of feminism as white middle-class woman, where whitemess marks their position of power and privilege vis-a-vis Indigenous women, and where silence about whitemess sustains the exercise of that power. And she examines the consequences of practices for Indigenous women and White women.

'This legal lie of terra nulliushas been used right up until the HighCourt of Australia handed down its decision on the now famous Mabo case. All previous claims at law by the Indigenous people had, up until that time, foundered on the rocks of that legal lie of terra nullius...' (Source: Speech Beyond Terra Nullius The Lie, 1994)