Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Articles
- The New Dreamtime : Kath Walker in Australian Literature1 May 1973
- While My Name Is Remembered…
This is a personal account of my association with Oodgeroo Noonuccal and the context in which it occurred.
A couple of generations of young Aboriginal people have now been fortunate enough to grow up with, and share in the legacy…
1 November 1994 - 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 it and hope you enjoy reading it. (Eileen's grandmother and Kath's grandmother were sisters.)
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo’s Impact on Federal Politics
There are few moments in contemporary Australian history that I have found more uplifting than 16 August 1991. It was on that day that, in an important moment of cross-party cooperation, the Federal Parliament gave historic unanimous support to legislation…
1 November 1994 - Growing Up with Our Sister Kath - Oodgeroo
Kath was always a leader — she got us involved in all kinds of mischief. These are some examples Kath used to scribble from when she was young, when she wasn't writing she was exploring the mud flats looking for…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo in China
Oodgeroo, or Kath Walker, as she then was, visited China from 12 September to 3 October 1984 in a delegation comprising Caroline Turner (as leader), Eric Tan, Rob Adams and Manning Clark.1 The delegation was organised by the Australia-China Council…
1 November 1994 - Poetry and Politics in Oodgeroo: Transcending the Difference
Politics has been described in many ways, most of them unflattering and all of them seemingly opposed to whatever poetry may be. Politics is the "art of the possible". As Kath Walker, Oodgeroo made Aboriginal literature possible in 1964 with…
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 of poems We Are Going shocked me into an awareness of the plight of the…
1 November 1994 - Long Memoried Women: Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Jamaican Poet, Louise Bennett
Jackie Kay's country is Scotland but she can be demonised within it because she is black. The poem's narrator has to assert her right to the land which does not itself erect barriers (the river shakes hands with the sea)…
1 November 1994 - A Mate in Publishing
Australia in 1972 was almost ready for the "It's Time" election when I took a job at Brian Clouston's Jacaranda Press. Two years before, Kath Walker's My People had been published and, in spite of Judith Wright's all too accurate…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo - an Inspiration for Members of the Darug Community
A message stick sent to Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal from our brother Ken Upton of the Darug tribe, inviting her to visit Darug lands brought about our first meeting with Oodgeroo. From then on Oodgeroo became our friend and our…
1 November 1994 - From Kath Walker to Oodgeroo Noonuccal? : Ambiguity and Assurance in My People
My copy of My People — a 1986 reprint — has a photograph of Kath Walker on the cover. She sits on a rock at the edge of a pool looking thoughtfully past the fixed frame of the photograph. Her…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo: A Selective Checklist1 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 for granted. Because they are a minority group Aboriginal people's history was, until the 1960s…
1 November 1994 - The Road Ahead
Long before the British invaded Australia our people expressed their emotions, our history, the sacred and secular events of our lives, via the medium of painting, storytelling, song and ceremony.
Pre-invasion stories and songs tell of the paths of the…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo’s Work and Its Theatrical Potential
It was 1984 and Kath Walker, as she was then, had just witnessed the final rehearsal of You Came To My Country and You Didn't Turn Black, a theatre-piece inspired by her life and work. Produced by The Acting…
1 November 1994 - The Poetemics of Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal
‘Oodgeroo…never once discribed herself as a poet. She often said, when pressed, that she was an educationalist and that her job was to educate both white and black…to wrench her verse away from her life and accepted role is to…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo - an Educator Who Proved One Person Could Make a Difference
For those of us who knew Oodgeroo well and loved her dearly our attempts to contribute to this book are difficult as we are still mourning her. I have been told to tell it like it is and to provide…
1 November 1994 - Performance for the People
Every memory has a point of departure.
My own starting point was a Wednesday in late August, 1980 T he place was Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island) off the coast of Queensland in Quandamooka (Moreton Bay), half an hour east of…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo: A Pioneer in Aboriginal Education
"White people want to do something about Aborigines, but they don't know how to go about it," said Kath Walker (Oodgeroo) to reporter Jim Hall of the Sun Herald in June 1964. Hall was reporting on the phenomenal success of…
1 November 1994
Contributors
- Ulli Beier
- Anne Brewster
- John Collins
- Rhonda Craven
- Ruth Doobov
- Alan Duncan
- Eve Mumewa D. Fesl
- Bob Hodge
- Nicholas Jose
- Pat Jarvis
- Eva Rask Knudsen
- Janine Little
- Mudrooroo
- Eileen O'Loughlin
- Lucy Pettit
- Fay Richards
- Sue Rider
- Roberta Sykes
- Angela Smith
- Adam Shoemaker
- Robert Tickner
- Edna Watson