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Oodgeroo Noonuccal BLM 19 odgeroo corrected through severe Noonuccal is punishment. Punishments Ofamous for her Oodgeroo included hitting over poetry, her paintings and the knuckles with an for a variety of honours ebony ruler and that were accorded to standing in the corner her throughout her long Noonuccal wearing a dunce’s cap. life of service and By the age of devotion to her people thirteen Oodgeroo had and her land. reluctantly left school Oodgeroo means and had begun work as ‘paperbark’. She a domestic servant for a belonged to the wealthy white family. Noonuccal group who She was disappointed lived on the island of that because she was Minjerribah (Stradbroke black she could not do Island). Oodgeroo was further study or find born on 3 November other work. However, 1920. She was the with the outbreak of second youngest child of World War II in 1939, the family and had three the opportunity opened brothers and three sisters. She out on the mudflats of the bay. up for her to volunteer was brought up at One Mile Her favourite activities as a for army work. She was on Minjerribah. child were crabbing, fishing trained in telecommunications Because the Queensland and oyster hunting. and for the first time in her government had taken control From her father Oodgeroo life earned a reasonable of Minjerribah early this learned about her people and wage—sixty cents a day. century, the Noonuccal people their way of life and beliefs. Her marriage to Bruce suffered the effect of Outside her family she Walker took place in 1942. government policies that encountered the apartheid They had two children, reduced them to servants and that was commonly practised Dennis and Vivian. Ten years labourers without paid wages. throughout Australia in one of marriage, however, ended in Oodgeroo’s father as a form or another. Her first divorce and she raised her two labourer was paid in years at Dunwich State School sons alone. Because she had government rations. He lead a were also not had army service she qualified strike against this in entirely happy. She for a repatriation scholarship 1935 and won had a miserable and successfully completed a wages for his time because she commercial course in book people. was left-handed. keeping, typing and Oodgeroo There was a shorthand. loved the sea and belief at this Oodgeroo’s attendance in the seashore, and as time that left- 1961 of the first meeting of a young girl spent handedness the Aboriginal Advancement much of her time was wrong and League at the University of around the shores and needed to be Queensland changed the 30 Blake Education Fully Reproducible BLM 20 Oodgeroo Noonuccal direction of her life, and she joined the Oodgeroo changed her name from Kath campaign to change the Australian Walker to her Aboriginal name to Constitution so that black Australians could be acknowledge her Aboriginality in 1988—the given citizenship rights. In 1965 she lobbied year celebrated by white Australians as the the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, but he Bicentennial. From 1960 to 1970 she was State was not sympathetic to her cause. She lobbied Secretary of the Federal Council for the his successor, Harold Holt, in 1966. He Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait eventually agreed to a referendum on the issue. Islanders. She received the Mary Gilmore This referendum was held on 27 May 1967 Medal and the Fellowship of Australian Writers and was a resounding affirmation of the rights Award, and received doctorates from of Aboriginal people. Macquarie University and Griffith University. It was her work in the Aboriginal rights In July 1989 Oodgeroo attended a conference movement that stimulated Oodgeroo’s need to in Canberra for the International Year of write. Her first book of poems, We Are Going , Literacy where she spoke of the need to tell published in 1964, was also the first book ever the history of Aboriginal peoples and the need published by an Aborigine. This was followed by to face the destruction of the earth. The Dawn is at Hand in 1966, My People in 1970, ‘We are the custodians of the earth and its and Stradbroke Dreamtime in 1972. Her writing is lifeforms which we must respect and protect. filled with her love of the earth, stories of her We own nothing. Our Earth Mother teaches childhood and the Noonuccal people, and her us that the earth owns us . The Earth mourning for the loss of the Aboriginal past. Mother tells us that we are too busy fighting Oodgeroo’s art is also filled with these machines to take time for each other. Man ideas. Her paintings and drawings tell of the should have time and space to find his destruction of the earth, the beaches and the spiritual roots. whales. They depict the creatures of the earth, ‘All of the cultures of the world must be particularly those of the seashore, and her own recognised. We in the Southern Hemisphere totem, the carpet snake. The first exhibition of have a unique contribution to make to the her paintings was held at the Brisbane world. Once we can bring people together Community Arts Centre in 1981. through culture then we can bring them Oodgeroo’s determination to halt the together in all other ways to bring about the destruction of the earth stimulated her to unity of mankind and the world.’ * approach the Queensland Government to sell or lease land to her. Eventually they granted her five acres of her family’s land at Moongalba. She established there a homeland and educational centre, where native plants, animals, birds and insects can flourish and where people from all over the world can come to experience the earth as she knew it. * Oodgeroo Noonuccal quoted in Al Grasby Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Headliners, Macmillan, 1991, p. 27. Blake Education Fully Reproducible 31 Teaching notes for Oodgeroo Noonuccal Text form: Biography LOOKING AT PARAGRAPHS Medium: Reference book Help students to identify the main idea around which each paragraph is organised. Remind students to look at the topic Field: Information about sentence in each paragraph. You may wish to bring examples of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s life texts that use subheadings so that students can use these as Tenor: Expert to general audience models for the subheadings that they will write. Encourage students to discuss their subheadings with each other as they Mode: Written explore economical ways of highlighting the main idea of each paragraph. OTHER RESOURCES LOBBYING THE PM Access to collections of poetry by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Explain to students what lobbying is and how it works. You research information about her life. may wish to tell students that there are people who are Access to information about Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island). professional lobbyists, employed to communicate issues and Access to information about Prime Minister Menzies and swing opinion. Talk about how people might be persuaded to a Prime Minister Holt. particular viewpoint. You may wish to explain the role of the Examples of written texts with subheadings. Australian Constitution and the Referendum, and why the Draft paper. Referendum was necessary. You may also need to provide students with information about the Prime Ministers Robert INTRODUCING THE UNIT Menzies and Harold Holt. Explain that a biography is a form of information report while a description is an information report about a particular CUSTODIANS OF THE EARTH person, place or thing. Point out that it does not provide Help students to find information about Minjerribah information about a whole class of things, but rather about one (Stradbroke Island). They may wish to explore not only books particular person. It does however commonly use some aspects about the area, but research information through travel of the form and features of an information report. Encourage brochures and other texts that make use of visual elements. them to talk about other biographies that they have read or Encourage students to consider how they can best present their encountered in the media. information using a largely visual design. The poster should provide as much information as possible about Minjerribah, LET ’S TALK ABOUT IT using primarily visual images. Encourage students to consider the style of visual image that is most appropriate for the Encourage students to discuss why we are interested in the content of the poster. If students have access to computer details of other people’s lives. Ask them to consider whether programs and scanners they may wish to design their poster as a this applies only to famous people who have made major computer aided design. Display the posters in the classroom. achievements. Provide the opportunity for students to consider how differing versions of a particular person’s biography can construct a different view of the person. Challenge them to POETRY PRAISE consider why one writer might present one view of a person Encourage students to read as many poems by Oodgeroo as while another writer might present a totally different view. possible and to explore some of her artwork. Have them Discuss the differences between the way a writer approaches a consider what kind of poem would be a fitting tribute to this biography and the way a person would write his or her own woman. Encourage them to revise and rework their drafts and autobiography. publish the final version in their books. THE MAIN EVENTS FOLLOW -UP /E XTENSION Point out that a biography is usually organised chronologically, • Have students prepare a ‘This is Your Life’ program on the although within the chronology it is possible to group the life and times of Oodgeroo Noonuccal. events of the person’s life in other ways.
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