Created with the intention of producing a farm providing a means for the local community to live self sustainably. The station, founded in June 1888, it is ituated in Yorta Yorta country, on the Murray River (New South Wales, near the Victorian town of Barmah). Cummeragunja Mission Station is an Aboriginal reserve. In 1983, after several bad changes, the title deeds to Cummeragunja returned to the Yorta Yorta people, and a number of Yorta Yorta families live there today.
Her poetry, by her own admission, is sloganistic and direct, using easily accessible rhyme schemes. At age 16, OODGEROO NOONUCCAL she was rejected for nurse’s training, because of her Aboriginal descent, becaming an activist for Aboriginal rights. Raised on Stradbroke Island (off Moreton Bay, Queensland), where many of the ancient Aboriginal customs were still practiced, she was a member of the Noonuccal tribe. Her writings include books of poetry, fiction, essays, and speeches, also with a treatment of Aboriginal creation myth (The Rainbow Serpent). As the third largest sand island in the world, makes for a perfect day trip when you want to get in touch with nature. With its miles of sun-bleached beaches and pockets of wild bushland, you can feel Moreton Island a world away.
In the Central Australian desert, you can find one of the harshest environments in the world. Here, in accordance with his parent’s customs, their son ALBERT NAMATJIA had remain unnamed, until was old enough to appreciate the significance of his given name, at the age of 13, when he disappeared for months. The elders of his tribal group took him to distant grounds, to be initiate into manhood.
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