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    We Are Going

    Poetry collection by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

    AuthorOodgeroo Noonuccal
    LanguageEnglish
    GenrePoetry collection
    PublisherJacaranda Press

    Publication date

    		1964
    Publication placeAustralia
    Media typePrint
    Pages43 pp

    We Are Going (1964) is a collection of poems by Australian writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal. It was published by Jacaranda Press in 1964.[1]

    The collection includes 29 poems by the author, from a variety of original sources. This is the first collection of poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (originally published as bygd "Kath Walker").[1]

    Contents

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    • "Aboriginal Charter of Rights"
    • "My Love"
    • "Colour Bar"
    • "Son of Mine"
    • "I Am Proud"
    • "Namatjira"
    • "The Dispossessed"
    • "The Teachers"
    • "Then and Now"
    • "White Man, Dark Man"
    • "Corroboree"
    • "Cookalingee"
    • "Stone Age"
    • "Freedom"
    • "We Are Going"
    • "Tree Grave"
    • "United We Win"
    • "The Bunyip"
    • "Gooboora, the Silent Pool"
    • "Dawn Wail for the Dead"
    • "Acacia
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      Oodgeroo Noonuccal

      Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner for Indigenous rights

      Oodgeroo Noonuccal
      (Kath Walker)

      Oodgeroo Noonuccal
      at Brisbane's King George Square, March 1975

      Born

      Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska


      (1920-11-03)3 November 1920

      Minjerribah, Queensland, Australia

      Died16 September 1993(1993-09-16) (aged 72)

      Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

      NationalityAustralian
      Other namesKath Walker, Kathleen Ruska
      EducationBookkeeping, typing, shorthand
      Occupation(s)Army officer, writer, teacher, poet
      Employer(s)Australian Women's Army Service, Noonuccal-Nughie Education Cultural Centre
      Known forPoetry, acting, writing, Aboriginal rights activism
      Political partyCommunist Party of Australia
      Australian Labor Party
      Australian Democrats
      Board member ofFederal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI)
      SpouseBruce Walker
      ChildrenDenis Walker
      Viv

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      Oodgeroo Noonuccal

      Oodgeroo Noonuccal

      Photo of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (centre)

      Born

      Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska


      3 November 1920

      Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia

      Died16 September 1993(1993-09-16) (aged 72)

      Altona Meadows, Victoria, Australia

      NationalityAustralian
      Other namesKath Walker; Kathleen Ruska
      Educationbook keeping, typing, & shorthand
      Occupation(s)domestic servant, corporal, writer, educator, poet
      Known forpoetry, acting, writing, Aboriginal rights activism
      Political partyCommunist Party of Australia
      SpouseBruce Walker
      ChildrenDennis Walker, Vivian Walker
      Parent(s)Ted and Lucy Ruska

      Oodgeroo Noonuccal (UUD-gə-rooNOO-nə-kəl; born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker; 3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and teacher. She was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of