Kath Walker, known as Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal from 1988 onward, was a formative figure in the field of contemporary Australian indigenous literature in English. We Are Going (1964) was the first book of poetry by an indigenous Australian to be...

In Australia, racial discourses have influenced not only how we receive and read Aboriginal texts but, most importantly, what type of narrative an Aboriginal author is able to produce and publish in the first instance. This is because both texts and their audiences...

Oodgeroo Noonuccal poetry and Margery Forde's snapshots from home both show representations of events, issues and people that are apparent in australia's society