Social injustice

Literary biography has both its friends and its enemies. Readers of the genre may be fans of particular authors, or may be addicted to literary…

A biography of Catherine Martin and the ways in which her works reflect the issues of her times.

Scotland's Gaelic-speakers are not very numerous--according to the latest publication of the Gaelic Television Committee they number about 82,000, all of them bi-lingual--but they are…

Bradstock responds to previous critics who argued that Cambridge yielded to convention and limited her thought. Bradstock argues that Cambridge entertained quite unconventional attitudes in…

The colonisation of Aboriginal land is a moment of at least two clear examples of British imperial barbarity. In their study Dark Side of the…

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…

I was a young, impressionable Aboriginal Australian when I first saw her; she was stating her view on television, cleverly honing her point with flashing…

‘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…

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…

"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…