| Description |
vi, 170 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: The authors speak -- Editor's note -- 1. Seeing it from both sides Jonathan Nadji -- 2. Nginingawila ngirramini kapi parlingarri purumuwu ngawa-ampi ngawa-maniguwi Monica Timaepatua -- 3. Meeting each challenge Michael Hill -- 4. Battlin' for a quid Alan Kyle -- 5. To give and not to take Betty Stewart -- 6. Painting in my own way Rochelle Patten -- 7. The land is my mother Gordon Pablo -- 8. Tops on the tip, radio 4 INJ Robert Bagie -- 9. I'd like to get on with it Lyle Sansbury -- 10. Growing to meet the work's demands Naomi Mayers -- Ten Aboriginal working lives: a window on Australian society -- A frame of reference for the ten autobiographies of work -- Notes, sources and further reading -- Index |
| Summary |
Contains working biographies of ten Aborigines; Jonathan Nadji (park ranger), Monica Timaepatua (seamstress), Michael Hill (drug and alcohol counsellor), Alan Kyle (seaman), Betty Stewart (educational assistant), Rochelle Patten (artist), Gordon Pablo (language co -ordinator), Robert Bagie (broadcaster), Lyle Sansbury (company chairman) and Naomi Mayers (company secretary); topics covered include - National Parks Service; sport; bush foods; traditional and Christian beliefs; agricultural, mechanical and farm work; substance abuse; crocodile shooting, pearling and trochus industries; histories of La Perouse and Cummeragunja; discrimination (economic and social); employment; social work; education; health services; radio and television broadcasting; Aboriginal enterprises; Nurungga Farming Company; Aboriginal Health Service, Redfern; self-determination; government policy; language preservation and recovery |
| Analysis |
Australian aborigines Social conditions |
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Aboriginal Australians - Economic conditions |
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Aboriginal Australians - Employment |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Aborigines |
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Biography |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [160]-167) and index |
| Audience |
For senior secondary school students |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Bagie, Robert
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Gallagher, Nan.
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Hill, Michael.
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Kyle, Alan
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Mayers, Naomi Ruth, 1941-
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Nadji, Jonathan.
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Pablo, Gordon, 1933-
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Patten, Rochelle, 1951-
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Sansbury, Lyle
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Stewart, Blaize Clement.
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Timaepatua, Monica
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Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Employment.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Gallagher, Nan.
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Nadji, Jonathan.
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| LC no. |
91020685 |
| ISBN |
0521424321 |
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