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KathleenJean MaryNoonuccal formerly Ruska aka Walker

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Daughter of Edward Ruska and Lucy (McCullough) Ruska

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Kathleen was born on 3 November in Bulimba, Brisbane, Queensland, to Edward (Ted) Ruska, a Labourer of Noonuccal (see however^[1] that gives the spelling as Nunukul, one of 3 tribes of the Quandamooka people) descent, who also had German and Spanish-Philippino parentage, and Lucy McCullough, daughter of an inland (Marion Downs, Winton) Aboriginal woman and a Scottish migrant (Alexander McCulloch).

Kathleen used several different names during her lifetime, including her traditional Aboriginal name, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, from onwards, and Kath Walker or Kathleen Jean Walker. The Noonuccal people were the traditional owners of North Stradbroke Island, in Moreton Bay, Queensland, known by them as Minjerribah.

She was one of her parents' 7 children,^[2] and it was her father, who campaigned for better conditions for Aboriginal workers, who left a strong impression on his daughter.

The One Mile settlement on the outskirts of Dunwich, on the Island, was Kathy's childhood home. She completed her formal education at Dunwich State School in , aged 13, and went to work in Brisbane as a domestic for the family of a Solicitor.^[2] She remained in domestic service until World War II, even though poorly paid, because of the lack of opportunities open to Aboriginal women.

On 28 July Kathleen joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (A.W.A.S.) as a signaller, enlisting at Brisbane, Queensland, with Service Number: QF, but after promotion to Lance Corporal, she worked in the district accounts office until being discharged on 19 January due to poor health. Her Military Service record has her name as Kathleen Jean Mary Walker and her spouse as Bruce Walker.

At that time she was on the Electoral Roll for The Islands, Moreton as Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska with her father Edward, an Oysterman and mother Lucy, living at Dunwich.

On 8 May at the Methodist Church, West End, she had married Bruce Dennis Walker, a childhood friend from Stradbroke Island and a descendant of Aboriginal clans from Queensland’s Logan and Albert rivers region, including the Gugingin.

She was able to train in secretarial and bookkeeping skills at Brisbane Commercial College under the army’s rehabilitation scheme, so Kath was able to find a job. She and Bruce became involved in the Communist Party of Australia—the only political party in Australian that did not support the White Australia policy at this time.

However, the marriage did not last and Kath was forced to take in ironing and cleaning, with their son Dennis born after they split up in She had to return to domestic service, but her life changed when she got work with highly respected doctors, Sir Ralph Cilento-2 and Lady (Phyllis) Cilento McGlew-4, the former having a strong interest in the arts, encouraged Kath to use his vast library of books and read poetry.

Their talented daughters also helped her.

Kathleen Jean Mary Walker and Bruce Walker are however on the Electoral Rolls in and at 19 Myrtle Street, Thompson Estate, Buranda, where they had earlier purchased a house, with Kathleen giving the A.W.A.S. as her occupation and Bruce an oxy welder.

In , at the age of thirty-two, Kath gave birth to a second son whom she named Vivian but whose father is uncertain,^[2] though most likely Raphael Cilento junior (Cochrane , 23).

However, he used the name Vivian Walker until , then later Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

In , and , only Kathleen Jean Mary Walker is on the ER at 19 Myrtle Street.

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (–), black rights activist, poet, environmentalist, and educator, was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska on 3 November at Bulimba, Brisbane, second youngest of seven children of Edward (Ted) Ruska, labourer, and his wife Lucy, née McCullough.

In she was approached by Kathie Cochrane and her husband to join the newly formed Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (QCAATSI), aimed at advancing the Aboriginal cause. Initially, Kath was very shy of public speaking but became deeply involved in the civil rights movement for the Aborigines in the 's.

In she had been elected Queensland State Secretary of the Federal Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement, while also a member of the Queensland Aboriginal Advancement League executive, and would continue in the Secretary role to (, p/). She travelled around Australia with FCAATSI delegates, among them Faith Bandler Mussing and (Sir) Douglas Nicholls "She was a key figure in the campaign for the reform of the Australian constitution to allow Aboriginal people full citizenship, lobbying Prime Minister Robert Menzies in , and his successor Harold Holt in "^[3].

During the same period, Kath became the first Aboriginal member of the Brisbane Realist Writers' Group and received a great deal of support from her writing colleagues, including Dame Mary Gilmore, nee Cameron, who encouraged her to write down her poems. In , aided by a Commonwealth Literary Grant, Kath Walker published her first collection of poetry, "We are Going".

It was reprinted seven times.^[2] In , her second collection, "The Dawn is at Hand" won the Jessie Litchfield Award. Other literary awards followed.

Kath walker biography information on pablo Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (–), black rights activist, poet, environmentalist, and educator, was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska on 3 November at Bulimba, Brisbane, second youngest of seven children of Edward (Ted) Ruska, labourer, and his wife Lucy, née McCullough.

"In , she moved to Holland Park, and the following year unsuccessfully stood as the ALP candidate in her local (state) electorate of Greenslopes. In , she was invited to attend the World Council of Churches’ Consultation on Racism in London. The event was a pivotal moment for Walker; she returned to Australia convinced of the need for Aboriginal activists to work within their own political organisations rather than white-dominated ones." (See ref.3)

On 29 April , Kath led the protests against the 'offensive' commemoration of the bicentenary of Captain Cook's landing at Kurnell, Sydney on 29 April Queen Elizabeth II attended the re-enactment that was televised nationwide.

Mark McKenna, , pp has a well resourced discussion of the event that resulted in there being "no government sponsored re-enactment of Phillip's landing at Sydney Cove or the arrival of the First Fleet" in

In through to , the last published ER, Kathleen Jean Mary Walker was on the Electoral Rolls at Mallon Street, Dunwich, Stradbroke Island (see ref.3), Queensland, giving her occupation as Writer.

Dunwich was her childhood home.

"She travelled widely in the s, going on lecture tours around Australia and overseas, living through a hijacking on a return flight from Nigeria in In , she was poet-in-residence at Bloomsburg State College, in Pennsylvania, USA, and visited a number of other US Colleges. Walker continued to write and publish, her work now largely reflecting her career as an educator.

She published a number of books of Aboriginal legends aimed at young readers." (See ref.3)

Also in , Kathleen Walker had been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the community.

Kath walker biography information on pablo escobar Polemical and ostensibly unsophisticated, Walker’s poetry enjoys a large audience and is appreciated for its heartfelt, moving evocation of the dispossession of the Aboriginal people, their plight, and their future.

She returned it in in protest against the forthcoming Australian Bicentenary celebrations (). At the same time she changed her name to Oodgeroo ('paperbark tree') Noonuccal by deed poll, and her son Vivian, who was also multitalented, changed his to Kabul ('carpet snake') Noonuccal. They worked together on a theatre production explaining the Dreamtimg for the Brisbane Expo as "The Rainbow Serpent Theatre".

In the 's, she had been denied every avenue by the Queensland and Federal Governments to set up a permanent Noonuccal-Nughie Education and Culture Centre on North Stradbroke Island on the site of the old Presbyterian Moongalba Mission, north of Dunwich, so set up a caravan to live in there, where she was visited by thousands of people from all over the world.

She also had many battles as a conservationist to prevent the Island being overrun by tourists.^[2]

In the 's she successfully turned from the pen to painting; and revealed another aspect of her life as a highly talented actress in films on Aboriginal life.

In , when Australian poet Judith Walker had her book "Born of the conquerors: selected essays" published, she mentioned that she "owed a great deal to Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe, guardian of the Minjerribah who helped me to understand a little of her peoples' tragic story" (Koori Mail, , Ed.8, p).

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In the same year she was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Monash University in Victoria (, p.4, Ed).

Oodgeroo Noonuccal died of cancer of the pancreas on 16 September at the Repatriation General Hospital, Greenslopes, Brisbane, Queensland. At her funeral on Minjerribah hundreds came to farewell the nation’s much loved poet and activist, who was buried at Moongalba beside Kabul.

An alphabetical list of poems with their Aboriginal authors can be found in Jens Korff's Creative Spirits website^[4].They can be read from that source, including 'A Song of Hope' by Oodgeroo (Kath Walker).

Seven other 'Prominent people' are included in the Wikipedia article on Quandamooka people (ref.1), with 2 men and 5 women, including the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Queenland Parliament; the first Aboriginal Australian Judge; a Order of Australia Medal recipient, having served her country in the ADF for over 20 years; an Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival; and the first Aboriginal person to be appointed to a mainstream lecturing position in women's studies in Australia.

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2. ↑ Australian Poetry Library.
   Biography information sheet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (/ ˈ ʊ d ɡ ə r uː ˈ n uː n ə k əl / UUD-gə-roo NOO-nə-kəl; born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, later Kath Walker (3 November – 16 September ) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. [1].

   Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Original no longer available. This copy at the Internet Archive made 7 March

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• Biography: Sue Abbey, 'Noonuccal, Oodgeroo (–)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, , published online
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Wikipedia;
• Cochrane, Kathie.

  Oodgeroo. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press,

• Military Service: Australia, World War II Military Service Records, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Operations, Inc., National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australia; Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, ; Series: B
• Residence: Australia, Electoral Rolls, [database on-line].

  Provo, UT, USA: Operations, Inc., , , , , , , ,

• McKenna, Mark, , Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian history of place. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
• Collaboration for Indigenous Rights: Kath Walker ().

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National Museum Australia.

• Koori Mail, 28 August , 'Judith Wright essays covers treatment of Aborigines, Islanders', Ed.8, p
• Koori Mail, 23 October , 'University Honour for Oodgeroo Noonuccal', p.4, Ed

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