"…in the early stages, the whites were kept very effectively away from the Aborigines. And whites will tell you quite blankly, I’ve never met an Aborigine in my life, so how could they know about us, how could they feel for us? It was done deliberately. They didn’t want friends of the Aborigines coming out and upsetting the jolly old white Australian apple cart you know, rocking the boat."
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On how she might attract a White audience as well as a Black audience in “‘Recording the Cries of the People’: AN INTERVIEW WITH OODGEROO (KATH WALKER)” in Kunapipi (1988)
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (November 3, 1920 - September 16, 1993) was an Australian Aboriginal political activist, artist and educator.
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