Aboriginal culture
Articles
- The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture1 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 dear friend of mine and Kath's wrote the poem that follows. I think it is a lovely poem and I thank Eileen for writing…
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