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Typescript draft of screenplay for Rabbit-proof fence

  • H2703
  • Item
  • 2000

Typescript, photocopy, of forth draft of screenplay of Rabbit-proof fence by Christine Olsen, based on the book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, dated 11 Aug 2000. Published by Jabal Films of Glenside, South Australia.

The film Rabbit-proof fence is based on a true account of Doris Pilkington Garimara's mother Molly.

Olsen, Christine, 1947-

Melissa Lucashenko Papers

  • UQFL635
  • Collection
  • 2012-2018

Draft of Mullumbimby, published by University of Queensland Press in 2013 and manuscript drafts, notes, and plot point cards for Too much lip, published by University of Queensland Press in 2018. Too much lip won the Miles Franklin Literary award in 2019.

Lucashenko, Melissa, 1967-

Herb Wharton Papers

  • UQFL212
  • Collection
  • 1988-2006

Manuscript drafts of books and poetry, correspondence, diaries, speeches, notes, taped interviews, newspaper cuttings, photographs.

Wharton, Herb, 1936-

Material connected to Shadow sister [motion pitcture]

This file includes letters, flyers, media releases, story outline for film, reservation forms to 'attend the screening of the film and meet Kath Walker' and newspaper cuttings relating to the film Shadow Sister. Shadow Sister : a film biography of Aboriginal Poet Kath Walker, M.B.E. was produced and directed by Frank Heinmans of Cinetel Productions. The film premiered at the Sydney Opera House in November 1977 to 6000 people, mostly school children.

Papers relating to John Joseph Healy.

  • F3305
  • Item
  • [1976-2002]

Contains:
Covering letter (January 2002) to Laurie Hergenhan from John Joseph Healy, signed Jack;
Letter (18 November 1976) to John Joseph Healy from Mary Durack recounting her friendship with Mudrooroo, 1938-; and,
A copy of of the writer Joseph Jay Jones's obituary written by John Joseph Healy.
The obituary was published in Antipodes vol.13 no.1 June 1999 (pp.39-40) under the title Remembering Joseph Jones, a Pioneer Australianist by Jack Healy.

Healy, John Joseph, 1939-

Oodgeroo Noonuccal poems

  • F3135
  • File
  • 1961-1964

Roneoed typescript (two copies, 6 leaves in total) of poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, given to Lucy Elizabeth Pettit (nee Ruska, 1939-1996). Lucy and Oodgeroo were sisters. The poems are: Willie McKenzie ; Namatjira ; Son of mine ; Acacia Ridge ; Frustration ; United we win ; Companionship ; The boomerang ; My love ; and Love blossoms. Undated, however most poems published in the early 1960s.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993

University of Queensland Press Records

  • UQFL198
  • Collection
  • [ca.1965]-

Includes production files (including typescripts, proof copies, galley proofs), correspondence, and minutes of publishing meetings.

University of Queensland Press