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AUSTRALIA<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS<br />
Meet the people who overcame prejudice to achieve great things<br />
Roach has released four<br />
albums and toured the world<br />
ARCHIE ROACH<br />
1956-PRESENT<br />
Archie Roach is an<br />
award-winning musician<br />
and singer, songwriter<br />
and guitarist. His 1990<br />
album Charcoal Lane won<br />
him two ARIA awards<br />
(Australian Record Industry Association) and was<br />
one of Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 50 albums in<br />
1992. His most famous song, Took The Children<br />
Away, drawsonhisownexperienceoftheStolen<br />
Generation, when Indigenous<br />
children were forcibly taken<br />
from their families. The song<br />
received a Human Rights<br />
Achievement Award,<br />
whichwasthefirstinits<br />
historytobeawardedto<br />
asongwriter.<br />
One of<br />
Namatjira’s<br />
paintings was sent to<br />
Londonandgiftedto<br />
Noonuccal was a<br />
key figure in the<br />
struggle to gain<br />
full citizenship for<br />
Aboriginal peoples<br />
OODGEROO NOONUCCAL<br />
1920-93<br />
Leaving school at 13, Noonuccal first worked as a<br />
domestic servant in Brisbane. In 1941, she enlisted<br />
in the Australian Women’s Army Service as a<br />
switchboard operator before being invalided in<br />
1943. Noonuccal began writing poetry in the 1950s.<br />
Her first collection, We Are Going, made her one of<br />
Australia’s bestselling poets, and she was the first<br />
Aboriginal person to become a published poet.<br />
Carrying strong political undertones, her poetry<br />
helped in the recognition of Aboriginal rights.<br />
Too young to remember his<br />
Aboriginal name, Lanne’s<br />
Christian name of William stuck<br />
WILLIAM LANNE 1835-69<br />
Also known as King Billy, William Lanne was<br />
the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian<br />
male and is known for the mistreatment of<br />
his body that followed his death. With both<br />
the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal<br />
Society of Tasmania wanting to examine his<br />
remains, the ensuing arguments resulted in<br />
his posthumous decapitation, his skull being<br />
stolen and his hands and feet being removed<br />
to prevent collection of samples. This horrific<br />
treatment led to legislation being passed that<br />
meant medical experiments must gain prior<br />
permission.<br />
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