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1915 - 2000

930 Australian poet and conservationist, whose awards include the Robert Frost Memorial Prize (1976). Selected works have been published in A Human Pattern (1990).

The easy Eden-dreamtime then in a country of birds and trees made me your shadow-sister, child, dark girl I couldn't play with.

1990 A Human Pattern,'Two Dreamtimes', stanza14.The poem is dedicated to KathWalker (now Oodgeroo Noonuccal).

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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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— 1990 A Human Pattern,'Two Dreamtimes', stanzas17-18.The poem is dedicated to KathWalker (now Oodgeroo Noonuccal).

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McKinney Quotes

1915 - 2000

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