Tuesday 6 June 2017

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)


3 November 1920   Her birthday  

1941                       Joining the Australian Women's Army Service 

1960                       Kath attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA)                                     annual conferences from. 

1962.                      becoming the first Queensland state secretary.

1964                       her first collection of poems We are Going was published by Jacaranda                                     Press

1970                       Kath supported the Pittock amendments to the FCAATSI constitution                                      which would have increased Indigenous power on the Federal Council

1970                      Kath Walker, My People, Jacaranda, Brisbane,  

16 September 1993    She died   
  
1994                      Kathie Cochrane, Oodgeroo, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 


1964                      Kath Walker, We are Going, Jacaranda, Brisbane, 

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