Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

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Label

Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

Title remainder

the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

Statement of responsibility

Stuart Rintoul

Creator

• Rintoul, Stuart

Author

• Rintoul, Stuart

Subject

• Biographies
• O'Donoghue, Lowitja
• Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
• Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
• Yankunytjatjara (Australian people) -- Biography
• Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission -- Officials and employees -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiography
• trueBiographies

Language

eng

Summary

Lowitja O'Donoghue is a truly great Australian. She is arguably our nation's most recognised Indigenous woman. A powerful and unrelenting advocate for her people, an inspiration for many, a former Australian of the Year, she sat opposite Prime Minister Paul Keating in the first negotiations between an Australian government and Aboriginal people and changed the course of the nation. But when Lowitja was born in 1932 to an Aboriginal mother and a white father in the harsh and uncompromising landscape of Central Australia the expectations for her life could not have been more different. At the age of two, she was handed over to the missionaries of the Colebrook Home for Half-Caste Children and cut off completely from her people and her culture. She would not see her mother again for another thirty years and would have no memory of her father. In 2001 a bitter controversy arose over whether Lowitja was 'stolen' as a child. In search of a past she did not remember, Lowitja went back to Central Australia accompanied by journalist Stuart Rintoul. This ground-breaking and long-awaited biography completes that journey into Lowitja's life and the challenging history of her times. It is a remarkable work about an extraordinary woman

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

NJB

Dewey number

994.0049915

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult