Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born in 1920 on Stradbroke island (Minjerriba to the Aboriginal people)‚ which was in Queensland‚ and she was born into the Noonuccal people of the Yuggera group. She was an actress‚ writer‚ teacher‚ artist and a campaigner for the Aboriginal people. Oodgeroo shared a trait with her father that was the sense of injustice. She left school at the age of 13 and worked as a domestic servant until 1939. After that she volunteered for service in the Australian Woman’s Army Service
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Australian Poets: Oodgeroo Noonuccal This week we will be talking about an aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ also known as Kath walker‚ who lived from 1920 until 1993. Oodgeroo came from the Noonuccal tribe in Queensland. Once she had completed primary school she left because she believed that even if she stayed in school there wasn’t the slightest possibility of getting a better. Oodgeroo travelled the world telling others about the dreadful conditions the aboriginals were living under
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Oodgeroo Noonaccal was an Australian poet‚ artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was well known for her poetry and in this analysis three of her poems will be looked into. The first poem that will be looked into that was written by Oodgeroo is called ‘We Are Going’. This poem is about the spirituality of the aboriginals. “We are the strangers here now‚ but the white tribe are the strangers” line 8‚ suggests that the white people have arrived in the aboriginals’
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ formerly known as Kath Walker‚ is an Australian aboriginal poet. Her poems are politically charged and record the aboriginal resistance to White Australian cultural and political domination. Noonuccal’s poetry and activism can be seen as response to the coloniser’s master discourse which marginalises the natives as ‘others.’ Helen Tiffin in her essay “Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse” mentions that “the rereading and rewriting of the European historical and fictional
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1: A) Indicate the Indians’ puzzlement over the ways of the white men. The line “and I don’t understand” is using repeatition through the story and conveys the confusion and puzzlement over the white men’s ways. B) Show the Indians’ disapproval of the whites’ treatment of land. Phrases like “there is no quiet place in the white man’s cities” display the disapproval the Indians have over the whites’ treatment. C) Words that show the importance to the Indians of their ancestors’
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My response to ’Then and Now’ and ’Civilisation’ Then and now The poem ’Then and Now’ compares the different generations of the old and the new. The old refers to the period of time where Aborigines could roam their country without any troubles‚ their lifestyles were able to be expressed as there was no control in authority in that period of time. The new generation is where everything has changed; constricting their lifestyles and their growth in beliefs as Aborigines because their dreams and
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and music explore the issues of our society? This is the question which today I will be answering by comparing and contrasting a poem and song. The poem ‘No More Boomerang’ written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and the song ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ composed by Peter Allen‚ are two pieces of writing which comment specifically on Australian society and culture. Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ or also known as Kath Walker‚ was an Aboriginal Australian poet‚ political activist‚ artist and educator. Born 1920 on
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Belonging is explored in various modes‚ in particular the poem ‘We Are Going” by Oodgeroo Noonccal published in 1964. The text conveys the time of strife for the Aboriginal people as the white people colonised the land in the year 1606. The mode of poetry is used to express the voice for Indigenous people at the time of struggle and justice. Various techniques are used to convey the meaning of belonging and not belonging. The Aboriginal people have a sense of belonging as they have an original
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between black and white Australians. We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal They came in to the little town A semi-naked band subdued and silent All that remained of their tribe. They came here to the place of their old bora ground Where now the many white men hurry about like ants. Notice of the estate agent reads: ’Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’. Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring. ’We are as strangers here now‚ but the white tribe are the strangers. We belong here
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The texts show the unique Indigenous voices and the message they are trying to convey. I have chosen to talk about the poems “We are going” and “All One Race” both written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The poem shows their experience through a variety of themes such as displacement and loss‚ connection to the land‚ bravery‚ equality‚ hope and resilience as well as their identity. The poem “We are going” by Oodergoo Noonuccal effectively shows the Indigenous experience through the theme of displacement and
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