Aboriginal culture
Articles
- The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture
There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of…
1 October 1992 - The Telling of Marmel’s Story
The essay discusses Brimming Billabongs, ‘the first Aboriginal “autobiography”, albeit simulated, but also the first fictional narrative to rely upon an Aboriginal character as…
1 June 2009 - Tribute to Oodgeroo
A poem by Eileen O'Loughlin written in tribute to Oodgeroo.
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo as Friend and Artist
I first came across Oodgeroo's writing in 1965. I was living in Nigeria at the time, where Australia hardly entered one's consciousness. The slim volume…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo: Orator, Poet, Storyteller
The past and history have been foregrounded in Aboriginal consciousness as issues that demand attention whereas the history of white Australia has often been taken…
1 November 1994