^[3] See, for example, Spencer Reiss and Carl Robinson, ‘Aborigines vs. Queensland’, Newsweek 11 October, 1982, p. 13.

^[4] See, for example, Tony Hewett and David Monaghan, ‘Blacks Boo Royal Pair on Barge’, the Sydney Morning Herald 27 January, 1988, p. 2, and Anne Jamieson, ‘The Push for an Aboriginal Parliament’, the Weekend Australian, 6-7 February, 1988, p. 24.

^[5] Ribnga Kenneth Green, ‘Aborigines and International Politics’, in Berndt and Berndt, eds, Aborigines of the West, (Perth, 1979), p. 392.

^[6] Bernard Smith, The Spectre of Truganini, (Sydney, 1980), p. 36.

^[7] Jim Davidson, ‘Interview: Kath Walker’, Meanjin, vol. 36, no. 4, 1977, p. 430.

^[8] Although, as will be discussed in Chapter Two, David Unaipon was the first published Aboriginal author, his works were never widely distributed.

^[9] For a fuller treatment of this topic, see Robert Hall’s unpublished M.A. (Qual.) thesis, ‘The Army and the Aborigines, World War II’, (Canberra, 1979).

^[10] J.J. Healy, Literature and the Aborigine in Australia, (St. Lucia, 1978), p. 3.

^[11] Rodney Hall, ed., The Collins Book of Australian Poetry, (Sydney, 1981), pp. 13-19.

^[12] For further examples of traditional Aboriginal poetry, see Strehlow’s Songs of Central Australia, (Sydney, 1971); Ronald M. Berndt’s Love Songs of Arnhem Land, (Melbourne, 1976), and Three Faces of Love, (Melbourne, 1976); and Tamsin Donaldson’s article, ‘Translating Oral Literature: Aboriginal Song Texts’, Aboriginal History, vol. 3, 1979, part 1, pp. 62-83.

^[13] C.G. von Brandenstein and A.P. Thomas, Tarum Aboriginal Song Poetry From the Pilbara, (Adelaide, 1974), Inside Front Cover.

^[14] ibid. p. 38.

^[15] Smith, The Spectre of Truganini, p. 35.

^[16] Smith, The Spectre of Truganini, p. 36.

^[17] ‘The address given by his Holiness Pope John Paul II at the meeting with Aboriginal and Torrres Strait Islander people at Alice Springs on 20 November 1986’, (Canberra, 1986), p. 4.