Saturday 22 August 2015

Cath Walker time line

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
1960s  Kath Walker - poet, activist and public speaker
 1941  she  Joining the Australian Women's Army Service
1958   she joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders,
1960    Kath attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) annual conferences from
1962 she become the first Queensland state secretary in 
1962 she read  her 'Aboriginal Charter of Rights'
1964  in Adelaide she read and in her first collection of poems
1968 she attended a World Council of Churches consultation on racism in London
1970 Kath supported the  Pittock amendments to the FCAATSI constitution which would have increased Indigenous power on the Federal Council
1970s and 1980sreturned to her beloved Stradbroke Island

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  1. Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
    1960s Kath Walker - poet, activist and public speaker
    1941 she Joining the Australian Women's Army Service
    1958 she joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders,

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  2. 1960 Kath attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) annual conferences from
    1962 she become the first Queensland state secretary in
    1962 she read her 'Aboriginal Charter of Rights'
    1964 in Adelaide she read and in her first collection of poems
    1968 she attended a World Council of Churches consultation on racism in London
    1970 Kath supported the Pittock amendments to the FCAATSI constitution which would have increased Indigenous power on the Federal Council
    1970s and 1980sreturned to her beloved Stradbroke Island

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