Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993 (Personal Name)

Kath Walker interviewed by Susan Mitchell for Matriarchs in the Susan Mitchell collection, 1987

Australian legends and landscapes, c1990 t.p. (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) jkt. (formerly known as Kath Walker; b. 1920)

Stradbroke dreamtime, 1993 t.p. (Oodgeroo)

Dreamtime, 1994 t.p. (Oodgeroo) back cover flap (d. Sept. 1993)

Stradbroke dreamtime, 1992 t.p. (Kath Walker)

Stradbroke dreamtime, 1992 t.p. (Oodgeroo Nunukul)

Father Sky and Mother Earth, 2008 t.p. (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)

Wikipedia website, viewed on 12 September 2019 (Oodgeroo Noonuccal born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was an Australian Aboriginal political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights.[1] Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodgeroo_Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, MBE (Born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920—16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Through the 1960s she began to emerge as a prominent figure, both as a political activist and as a writer. She was Queensland state secretary of the Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (CAATSI), and was involved in a number of other political organisations. She was a key figure in the campaign for the reform of the Australian constitution to allow Aboriginal people full citizenship, lobbying Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1965, and his successor Harold Holt in 1966. She wrote many books, beginning with We Are Going (1964), the first book to be published by an Aboriginal woman, and won several literary awards, such as the Mary Gilmore Medal (1970), the Jessie Litchfield Award (1975), and the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Award. She was also awarded an MBE in 1970.