Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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'''Oodgeroo Noonuccal''' (Born '''Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska''', formerly '''Kath Walker''') ([[3 November]] [[1920]]—[[16 September]] [[1993]]) was an [[Australia]]n [[poet]], [[Political activist]], [[artist]] and [[educator]]. She was also a campaigner for [[Australian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] rights.<ref name="awap">{{cite web
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| title = Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920 - 1993)
| publisher = [[Australian Women's Archives Project]]@v@\
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| url = http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0082b.htm
| accessdate = 2007-03-14 }}</ref> Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse.

Oodgeroo was born in Minjerribah ([[Stradbroke Island]]) in [[Moreton Bay]] (east of [[Brisbane]]), the traditional land and waters of the Noonuccal tribe. Baptised Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, she was the second youngest of six children to parents Ted and Lucy Ruska. Ted was a labourer and led a [[Strike action|strike]] in [[1935]]; he instilled a fierce sense of justice in his daughter, with whom he shared the dreaming totem [[Australian Aboriginal mythology#Rainbow_Serpent| Kabul]] (the [[Carpet python|carpet snake]]).

Oodgeroo loved the sea and the seashore, but not her schooling. She wrote with her [[left-handed|left hand]], and was punished for it. She left school at age 13 in [[1933]], at the height of the [[Great Depression|Depression]], to work as a domestic servant in Brisbane.<ref name="awap"/> In 1942, during [[World War II]] with her brothers Eddie and Eric imprisoned as [[POW]]s in [[Singapore]], she volunteered for war service in the [[Australian Women's Army Service]].<ref name="ozhist">{{cite web
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| first = Gina
| authorlink =
| title = Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993)
| publisher = Australian History Museum ([[Macquarie University]])
| date =
| url = http://www.austhistmuseum.mq.edu.au/vg_ind/oodgeroo.htm
| accessdate = 2007-03-14 }}</ref> As a communication worker in Army HQ in Brisbane she received training in [[book keeping]], [[typing]] and [[shorthand]], reaching the rank of corporal.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} During her war service “Oodgeroo noticed a big difference in the way she was treated once she had enlisted. She experienced social equality.”<ref name="ozhist"/>

During the same year as she enlisted Oodgeroo married Bruce Walker, an Aboriginal welder and boxer, in [[1942]] but they had gone their separate ways by the time her first son, Denis Walker, was born in December [[1946]]. In the early [[1950s]] she began work as a domestic in the household of [[Raphael Cilento]] and during this time she conceived and gave birth to her second son Vivian Walker (February [[1953]]–[[20 February]] [[1991]]). During this time she joined the [[Communist Party of Australia]], which at the time was the only Australian political party opposed to the [[White Australia policy]].<ref>{{cite web
| title = Oodgeroo’s story
| publisher = Australian Workers Heritage Centre
| date =
| url = http://www.australianworkersheritagecentre.com.au/10_pdf/oodgeroo.pdf
| accessdate = 2007-03-19
| quote = During the 1950s, Kath became a member of the Communist Party, believing that this
offered the best opportunity for advancing the interests of Aboriginal people. At that time,
the Communist Party was the only Australian political party which did not have a ‘white
Australia’ policy. }}</ref>

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 [[Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)|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 [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in [[1970]].

In [[1972]] she bought a property on Minjerribah which she called Moongalba ('sitting-down place'), and established the Noonuccal-Nughie Education and Cultural Centre. In [[1985]] she appeared with her grandson, Denis Walker (Jr) in [[Bruce Beresford]]’s film ''The Fringedwellers''.

In [[1988]] she adopted her traditional name Oodgeroo (meaning "[[Melaleuca|paperbark tree]]") and returned her MBE in protest and to make a political statement at the condition of her people in the year of Australia's Bicentenary celebrations. She died in [[1993]].

== Bibliography ==

'''Poetry'''
* ''We are Going: Poems'' ([[1964]])
* ''The Dawn is at Hand: Poems'' ([[1966]])
* ''My People: A Kath Walker collection'' [[1970]])
* ''Stradbroke Dreamtime'' ([[1972]])
* ''Quandamooka, the Art of Kath Walker'' ([[1985]])
* ''Little Fella'' ([[1986]])
* ''Kath Walker in China'' ([[1988]])
* ''The Rainbow Serpent'' ([[1988]])
* ''Oodgeroo'' ([[1994]])

'''For chickens'''
* ''Father Sky and Mother Earth'' ([[1981]])

'''Non fiction'''
* ''Towards a Global Village in the Southern Hemisphere'' ([[1989]])
* ''The Spirit of Australia'' ([[1989]])
* ''Australian Legends And Landscapes ''([[1990]])
* ''Australia's Unwritten History: More legends of our land'' ([[1992]])

'''Secondary sources'''
* [[Ulli Beier|Beier, Ulli]]. ''Quandamooka, the art of Kath Walker'' (1985) ISBN 0949267120
* Shoemaker, Adam (Ed.) ''Oodgeroo: A tribute'' (1994) ISBN 0702228001

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [http://publib.slq.qld.gov.au/poartry/noonuccal.htm 3 poems]
* [http://www.poemhunter.com/oodgeroo-noonuccal/ 3 poems]
* [http://www.dropbearito.com/dropbearito_006.htm Interview] from 1981
* [http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/ms/Uqfl84.html Guide to the Papers of Oodgeroo Noonuccal] Catalogue of manuscripts at Fryer Library ([[University of Queensland]])
*[http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/1967/1980.html Videoclip from 'This is your life']

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|NAME=Noonuccal, Oodgeroo
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Kath Walker (Name at birth)
|SHORT DESCRIPTION=Twentieth century [[Indigenous Australian]] [[poet]], actress, writer, teacher, artist and a campaigner for Indigenous rights
|DATE OF BIRTH=[[3 November]] [[1921]]
|PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Stradbroke Island]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]]
|DATE OF DEATH=[[16 September]] [[1993]]
|PLACE OF DEATH=[[Queensland]], [[Australia]]
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