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Play, radio and film scripts

This folder contains:
2 play scripts. -- 'Manhunt' (handwritten in a notebook, dated 1968) and 'The play that never was' (cover title), 'Patience required for the problemental pass' (title on contents page) (stapled typescript booklet);
1 script for a radio program titled 'An Aboriginal Legend' which was part of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Queensland Branch) series 'Grade 3 Social Studies' aired on 6 Apr 1973;
1 script for a film broadcast of 'Stradbroke dreamtime' starring Kath Walker, produced by Val Hartigan - includes a shooting schedule, timings and footage estimates (13 leaves; handwritten annotations);
1 [radio] script titled 'Kath Walker : Story teller' (which includes the story 'Biami and Bunyip);

'Poems'

Original folder titled 'Poems' containing typescript and/or handwritten poems which may have multiple copies or drafts. This file contains the following poems:
‘Aboriginal Charter of Rights’ (2 drafts, published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press);
‘Balance’;
‘The Black Commandments’ (2 drafts);
‘Bluff Mountain’ (2 drafts);
‘The Boomerang’ (2 drafts);
'The Bunyip’ (2 drafts, from My people);
‘Civilization’ (2 drafts, published in The Dawn is at Hand, Jacaranda Press);
‘Commonplace’ (2 drafts, one typescript, one handwritten – with photocopy);
‘Community rain song', Dawn’ (2 drafts);
‘Dead Life’;
‘Death of a Bunya Pine’ (handwritten);
‘Dim Lit Street’;
‘Exile’ (8 drafts, handwritten);
‘Film Man’ (handwritten);
‘First Love’;
‘The Fisherman’;
‘For Llwelyn’;
‘Forbidden Love’ (3 drafts);
'Germany forgive our sins';
‘The Golden Voice’ (2 drafts);
‘Justice’ (written on the back of booklet, Information for your visit to Rome);
‘Lament of the Dead’;
‘Life gets Teadious’ (2 drafts);
‘Lost Love (for Bill)’ (with attached poem, 'Bill') (both handwritten);
'The Masterpiece’ (handwritten);
‘Mia Filo’;
‘Minjerriba’;
‘Moongalba Night’ (handwritten);
‘Moongalba Peacocks’;
‘Not my Style’;
‘Oh Truganner’;
‘Oration’ (written in red pen across typescript poem ‘Censored’);
‘Peacocks’ (handwritten);
‘Return to Nature’ (2 drafts);
‘Sammy Sparrow’;
‘Sister Poet’;
‘Son of Son of Mine’ (3 drafts, published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press);
‘A Song of Hope’ (with letter);
‘Spinners’;
‘Spring is’ (photocopy of handwritten poem);
‘The Storm’ (handwritten);
‘Sunrise’ (2 drafts);
'Teachers';
‘Time is Running out’;
'United we win' (handwritten, published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press);
'We are Going’ (published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press).
Untitled poems (title from first line): 'But the speakers voice', 'Hello tree', 'Oh ancient city of Kano', 'We, at the Jungai Summer School', and 'Who stole his pride'.

'Poems, unpublished'

The original folder was titled 'Poems unpublished' and has a contents listing by Kath Walker. Some poems have been published since the author created this file. It contains 34 poems, some with copies or drafts. The poems are:

  1. 'I'm Not’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
  2. ‘Westerlies’ (On the back of ‘The glass island’ by Laurie Neill);
  3. ‘Butcher Bird’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
  4. ‘Hari Sastra’ (3 handwritten drafts);
  5. ‘Little Bean’ (2 drafts, one handwritten);
  6. ‘Oration’ (5 drafts);
  7. ‘Full Moon’ (5 drafts);
  8. ‘Mangrove Bird’ (7 drafts);
  9. ‘Exhausted’ (2 drafts);
  10. ‘Wedding Song’ (6 drafts);
  11. ‘Dead Wood’ (6 drafts);
  12. ‘Hercules’ (2 drafts);
  13. ‘Child of Two Races’ (2 drafts);
  14. ‘No Place to Go’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
  15. ‘Roebun Lament’ (2 drafts);
  16. ‘Blue Crane’ (handwritten);
  17. ‘Will I?’ (3 drafts);
  18. ‘Minjerriba’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
  19. ‘To a Policeman’ (3 drafts);
  20. ‘Noises’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
  21. ‘Credit and Loss’ (4 drafts);
  22. ‘Furry Friend’ (4 drafts);
  23. ‘Can you?’ (6 drafts);
  24. ‘Lovers Quarrel’ (4 drafts);
  25. ‘Yussef’ (6 drafts, two handwritten (one on a British airways waste disposal bag with an accompanying letter);
  26. ‘Commonplace’ (4 drafts, one a photocopied handwritten draft);
  27. ‘The Fisherman’ (3 drafts);
  28. ‘Grey Gum’;
  29. ‘Civilised Man’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
  30. ‘Sunrise over Stradbroke’ (3 drafts);
  31. ‘Poets (for Jack Davis)’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
  32. ‘Black Prostitute’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
  33. ‘Sister Poet’ (1 draft, 1 carbon copy);
  34. ‘Iban Long house’ (3 drafts, one handwritten).

Politicians, politics, government

In this file, often accompanied by correspondence, are leaflets, newsletters, minutes of meetings, and reports of activities, from the following politicians and government departments: Aboriginal Loans Commission; Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Australia. Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs; Australia. Department of Education; Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs; Australia. Department of the Interior; Australia. Department of Veteran's Affairs; Australian Labor party; Bonner, Neville T.; Commissioner for Community Relations (Albert Jaime Grassby); Coombs, H. C.; Everingham, Doug; Keeffe, Jim; Office of the Public Service Board; Papers sent by Senator Jim Keeffe; Papers sent by Senator Stewart West; Papers sent by Senator Susan Ryan; Parliamentary papers, Bills, and Acts; Queensland. Board of Adult Education; Queensland. Department of Children's Services; Whitlam, Edward Gough; All African Peoples Revolutionary Party. Australia-USSR Society.

Publications by authors: A to D

Publications:

5 poets, 75 1975, North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kedron. [Inscribed by Ray Carmichael. Includes a sketch]

9 poets 80 1980, Nine poets eighty, North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kedron Park, Qld. [Inscribed: To Kath, Love Jan TJ. (Note the ‘Moongalba’ ref. on p 3)”]

Aboriginal Council 1979, Barambah, Cherbourg 1904-1979, The Council, Cherbourg

Aboriginal land rights : action booklet : extend the freeze! amend the Bill! : Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, 1976. 1976, [Aboriginal Land Rights Campaign?], [Redfern, N.S.W.?]

Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League 1969, Social services for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, The League, Cairns, Qld.

Adler, E 1981, Justice for aboriginal Australians : report of the World Council of Churches team visit to the aborigines June 15 to July 3, 1981, Australian Council of Churches, Sydney.

Andersen, M, Neill, L & Pitt, G 1974, 3 poets 1974, North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kedron Park.

Angus, A 1967, Variety of verse, s.n., Bairnsdale. [Inscription from Dorothy Hilda Featerstone. Includes a letter from Dorothy and an accompanying a copy of The Poetry Lover, no.107, 1965, with handwritten note]

Answering your questions about Aborigines : with directory of Aboriginal Departments and reading guide 1969, 4th ed. edn, Aboriginal Affairs, Parkville, Vic. [‘Aboriginal & Islanders Tribal Council’ stamps]

Anti-Slavery Society For The Protection Of Human Rights 1970, The Aborigines of Australia : a report to the Committee, Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights, London

Australia. Department of Territories 1963, The Aborigines and you, Government Printer, Canberra.

Australia. Department of Territories 1960, The skills of our aborigines : prepared for use by the National Aborigines' Day Observance Committee and its associates in connexion with the celebration of National Aborigines' Day in Australia, 8th July, 1960, Government Printer, Canberra.

Australia. Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. Australia. Office of the Commissioner for Community, R 1979, Let's end the slander : combating racial prejudice in teaching materials, Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, Canberra.

Australian National Commission for Unesco 1953, Australian Aboriginal culture : an exhibition, Government Printer, Sydney.

Bamaga High School 1973, Bamaga High School magazine, [The School], [Bamaga, Qld.]. [‘Mrs K.W.’ on cover]

Barker, B & Barker, M 1979, Australian Aborigines - towards a history (trial course), Brenn Barker, South Caulfield, Vic. [Signed by Brenn Barker to Kath Walker]

Baxter, JK & Olds, P 1972, Letter to Peter Olds : poem, Caveman Press, Dunedin.

Beier, G 1976, Exhibition of batik, prints, gold leaf drawings, and welded iron sculpture, Port Moresby, 25 June 1976.

Bennett, MM 1957, Human rights for Australian aborigines : how can they learn without a teacher?, Truth and Sportsman Ltd., Brisbane.

Bennett, S 1975, Poems from the paddy wagon, Cochon, Townsville. [Limited to 50 copies. Inscribed to Kath from Steff Bennett 22 Feb 1975]

Black Resource Centre 1976, The Queensland Aborigines Act and Regulations, 1971, Black Resource Centre, Brisbane.

Blandford, PWPW 1941, Netmaking : for seamen, yachtsmen, Boy scouts and others, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow. [Handwritten on cover ‘Museum Art Gallery Moongalba’]

Boyd, D 1974, Rolling thunder: a personal exploration into the secret healing powers of an American Indian medicine man, Delta, New York, NY. [Inscribed by Riley Smith, December 1978, Bloomsburg, Penn., USA]

Buchanan, C 1974, We have bugger all! : the Kulaluk story, Race Relations Department, Australian Union of Students, Carlton.

Campbell, AH 1958, The Aborigines and Torres Islanders of Queensland, United Nations Association, Western Suburbs Branch, Brisbane.

Cato, N 1957, The dancing bough, Angus & Robertson, Sydney. [Inscribed by Nancy Cato, 27 May 1967]

Cato, N 1958, All the rivers run, Heinemann, London. [Inscribed by Nancy Cato, 1981]

Chatswood High School 1965, Punari : the annual magazine of Chatswood High School, The School, Chatswood [Handwritten on cover ‘page 15’]

Chester, L 1965, Unikara, Penpress, Brisbane. [Inscribed by Leonard Chester, 28 Oct 1965]

Chimojalmako / Soul, 1975, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif. [Inscribed by some contributors]

Church and community (Christchurch, N.Z.) 1969, 1972, National Council of Churches in New Zealand, Christchurch. [Interview with Kath Walker in vol. 29 no. 9 1972 issue; Aboriginal Charter of Rights on back cover of vol. 26 no. 3 1969]

Colliver, FS & Queensland. Dept. of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. Archaeology, B 1974, Some plant foods of the Queensland aborigine, Colliver, Frederick Stanley and Queensland. Dept. of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. Archaeology Branch, St. Lucia.

Conspiracy by the state : defend Walker, Garcia & Lacey 1975, Ad Hoc Committee for the Defence, Spring Hill, Qld.

Coreno, M 1964, Ricordanze : liriche, R. Ozola, Rome. [Inscribed by Mariano Coreno 19 Dec 1964]

Council for Aboriginal Affairs 1970, *Report on consultations with Queensland Aborigines, Council for Aboriginal Affairs, Townsville.

Dalgleish, HD 1968, Tie my swag to a rainbow, The Author, Perth. [Signed by author, 1968]

Daugavas, V 1978, Latvia and Latvians, Central Board 'Daugavas Vanagi', London. [Accompanied by letter 17 Sep 1979]

Dawe, B 1978, Sometimes gladness : collected poems, 1954-1978, Longman Cheshire, Hawthorn, Vic. [Inscribed ‘To Kath From friends at North Brisbane C.A.E., 1 Feb 1981’]

Dennis CJ [1916?], Moods of Ginger Mick, Angus and Robertson, Sydney. [Inscribed by Hilda Lane, 16 Mar 1965 with newspaper cutting, poem by Hilda Lane ‘Black Babies’ pasted to inside cover and ‘The glove tree’ pasted to inside back cover; includes a poem by Hilda Lane to Dame Mary with love inserted in book]

Dostoyevsky, F 1974, Notes From The Underground, Bantam Books, New York, NY. [Inscribed by S.S. “Smokey” Rovner, 28 Aug 1975]

Downs, I 1970, The stolen land, Jacaranda Press, Milton, Qld. [Signed Kath Walker 1979]

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