930 Australian poet and conservationist, whose awards include the Robert Frost Memorial Prize (1976). Selected works have been published in A Human Pattern (1990).
1990 A Human Pattern,'Two Dreamtimes', stanza14.The poem is dedicated to KathWalker (now Oodgeroo Noonuccal).
I am born of the conquerors, you of the persecuted. Raped by rum and an alien law, progress and economics, are you and I and a once-loved land peopled by tribes and trees; doomed traders and stock-exchanges, bought by faceless strangers.
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