Third Edition
This is the third edition of 'My People', but the first to bear the name Oodgeroo, formerly known as Kath Walker. Oodgeroo's writing has a unique place in Australian literature. She described it herself as pure propaganda and not the best but the best selling. But it is more than that. Not only is it a provocative and emotional plea for the justice that is still to come for Australian Aborigines, but when her poetry was first published in the sixties it began a new phase in the communication between peoples in Australia.
For the first time a black Australian had analysed and judged white Australians as well as her own people. Yet, nearly thirty years later, the final lines of Aboriginal Charter of Rights remain sadly relevant.
