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<p>All One Race 1</p> <p>Let Us Not Be Bitter 2</p> <p>An Appeal 3</p> <p>The Curlew Cried 5</p> <p>Sounds Assail Me 6</p> <p>Tree Grave 7</p> <p>Dawn Wail for the Dead 8</p> <p>Dark Unmarried Mothers 9</p> <p>Not My Style 11</p> <p>Last of His Tribe 12</p> <p>The Child Wife 13</p> <p>The Young Girl Wanda 14</p> <p>Whynot Street 16</p> <p>White Australia 17</p> <p>Acacia Ridge 18</p> <p>The Unhappy Race 19</p> <p>Corroboree 20</p> <p>Stone Age 21</p> <p>Assimilation – No! 22</p> <p>Integration – Yes! 23</p> <p>The Teachers 24</p> <p>Ballad of Totems 25</p> <p>White Man, Dark Man 27</p> <p>The Protectors 28</p> <p>Intolerance 29</p> <p>Bwalla the Hunter 30</p> <p>No More Boomerang 32</p> <p>Bora 35</p> <p>Nona 37</p> <p>The Food Gatherers 38</p> <p>Aboriginal Charter of Rights 39</p> <p>Gifts 41</p> <p>Spinners 42</p> <p>A Song of Hope 43</p> <p>The Woor Woman 45</p> <p>The Dawn Is at Hand 47</p> <p>Municipal Gum 49</p> <p>My Love 50</p> <p>Colour Bar 51</p> <p>Tribal Justice 52</p> <p>Artist Son 54</p> <p>Son of Mine 55</p> <p>Dead Life 56</p> <p>? 57</p> <p>Jarri’s Love Song 58</p> <p>Community Rain Song 60</p> <p>Namatjira 66</p> <p>The Dispossessed 67</p> <p>Interlude 68</p> <p>The Bunyip 71</p> <p>Understand, Old One 72</p> <p>Gooboora, the Silent Pool 74</p> <p>We Are Going 76</p> <p>Cookalingee 77</p> <p>United We Win 79</p> <p>Song 80</p> <p>God’s One Mistake 81</p> <p>Verses 82</p> <p>Civilisation 84</p> <p>Biami 86</p> <p>Freedom 87</p> <p>Return to Nature 88</p> <p>Hope 89</p> <p>Racism 90</p> <p>I Am Proud 91</p> <p>Then and Now 92</p> <p>Daisy Bindi 93</p> <p>The Past 95</p> <p>Time Is Running Out 96</p> <p>Balance 97</p> <p>China ... Woman 98</p> <p>Reed Flute Cave 99</p> <p>Oh Trugganner! 101</p> <p>Kiltara-Biljara^* (Eagle Hawk) 104</p> <p>Mongarlowe 106</p> <p>Leave Straddie Unabridged 107</p> <p>Custodians of the Land 108</p> <p>Glossary 123</p> <p>Biography 127</p>

<p>Author, poet and illustrator <b>Oodgeroo</b>, of the tribe Noonuccal, was born in 1920 on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland. Formerly known as <b>Kath Walker</b>, she lived and worked for most of her life, working tirelessly on behalf of Aboriginal people. She died in 1993.</p>

<p>Oodgeroo’s writing has a unique place in Australian literature. When her poetry was first published in the 1960s, Kath Walker, as she was known then, provided a brave new voice for marginalised Aboriginal Australians. For the first time, an Aboriginal Australian was analysing and judging white Australians as well as her own people. She often made provocative and passionate pleas for justice:</p> <p>We want hope, not racialism,<br> Brotherhood, not ostracism,<br> Black advance, not white ascendance:<br> Make us equals, not dependants. <p>This collection of poetry and prose is a reminder of Oodgeroo’s contribution to Indigenous culture and the journey toward reconciliation. All Australians should be proud of this poet who dedicated her life to her people and her land.

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