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    Oodgeroo Noonuccal

    Aboriginal Dweller poet, creator, teacher spell campaigner perform Indigenous rights

    Oodgeroo Noonuccal
    (Kath Walker)

    Oodgeroo Noonuccal
    at Brisbane's King Martyr Square, Stride

    Born

    Kathleen Trousers Mary Ruska


    ()3 November

    Minjerribah, Queensland, Australia

    Died16 September () (aged&#;72)

    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    NationalityAustralian
    Other&#;namesKath Framework, Kathleen Ruska
    EducationBookkeeping, typing, shorthand
    Occupation(s)Army officer, scribe, teacher, poet
    Employer(s)Australian Women's Armed force Service, Noonuccal-Nughie Education Ethnical Centre
    Known&#;forPoetry, finicky, writing, Autochthon rights activism
    Political partyCommunist Entity of Australia
    Australian Labor Party
    Australian Democrats
    Board member&#;ofFederal Council promoter the Furtherance of Aborigine and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI)
    SpouseBruce Walker
    ChildrenDenis Walker
    Vivian Walker
    Parent(s)Ted and Lucy Ruska

    * Mary Gilmore Medal ()
    * Jessie Litchfield Award ()
    * International Substitute Award
    * Companionship of Inhabitant Writers' Award
    * Member pounce on the Embargo of rendering British Empire
    * Honorary Degree (Queensland Lincoln of Technology)
    * Token Doctorate (Macquarie University)
    * Doctorate (Griffith U

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    Aunty Oodgeroo Noonuccal ( - ) was an Aboriginal rights activist, poet, veteran, environmentalist and educator.

    *Aunty Oodgeroo Noonuccal previously known and is often referred to as Kath Walker. In she adopted the name Oodgeroo (meaning 'paperbark tree') Noonuccal.

    Aunty Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born in Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in Queensland in Her father, Edward, was a Quandamooka man from the Noonuccal Clan from the area around Moreton Bay and Stradbroke Island and her mother, Lucy, was of the Peewee clan from inland Australia.

    "We belong here, we are of the old ways. We are the corroboree and the bora ground, We are the old sacred ceremonies, the laws of the elders" – We Are Going

    Growing up, Aunty Oodgeroo had a strong connection to her sand and water Country and her culture. Her totem was Kabool the carpet snake. Aunty Oodgeroo’s father taught all his children about Aboriginal lore and values.

     

    The Dispossessed

    Image: Kath Walker, Moongalba, one  Carol JERREMS. NGV.

     

    In when Aunty Oodgeroo was 21, she enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) after her two brothers were captured by the Japanese in Singapore. She said “‘I joined the AWAS prin

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    Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)

    Born in , Kathleen Walker, nee Ruska, grew up on North Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane. Known as Kath, Walker showed a natural gift with words at an early age and was encouraged to pursue writing at school. Her father, Edward, worked for the Queensland government and campaigned relentlessly to improve conditions for Aboriginal employees.

    Walker left school in at the height of the Great Depression to take up work in domestic service. When the Second World War broke out in two of Walker’s brothers, Eric and Eddie, enlisted for service in the army. Both were captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell in February , and they spent the next three and a half years as prisoners of war.

    In December Walker joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) and trained as a signaller. In that same year she married her childhood friend, Bruce Walker, who was a talented bantamweight boxer and a welder by trade. Kath remained in the AWAS until early January She settled in Brisbane with her husband, and their first son, Denis, was born two years later.

    Both Eric and Eddie survived the war and returned home to Australia. Eddie, who had been a promising sportsman, had lost his right leg during his imprisonment. Walker separated from