Research Catalog

Title

Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue / Stuart Rintoul.

Author

Rintoul, Stuart

Publication

Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.

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Details

Description

380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (chiefly colour); 25 cm

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.

Subject

• O'Donoghue, Lowitja, 1932-
• Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission > Officials and employees > Biography
• Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
• Yankunytjatjara (Australian people) > Biography
• Stolen generations (Australia) > Biography
• Women, Aboriginal Australian > Biography
• Women, Aboriginal Australian
• Employees
• Stolen generations (Australia)
• Yankunytjatjara (Australian people)

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Book one: Land of fierce lights -- Book two: Iti (The baby) -- Book three: An old suitcase and a wedding picture -- Book four: Lily's daughter -- Book five: The wind across the sandhills -- Book six: 'Pagan woman rises' -- Book seven: Only she -- Book eight: 'My name is Lowitja' -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 21-7456

ISBN

• 9781760875602
• 1760875600

LCCN

2020445007

OCLC

1164818206

Author

Rintoul, Stuart, author.

Title

Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue / Stuart Rintoul.

Publisher

Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7456