Time Line

                                 Kath Walker  (1920-1993) 

• 1920-  born in Australia
• 1941-  joined the Australian Women's Army Service 
• 1958-  joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
• 1960-   attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) annual conferences
• 1962-  becoming the first Queensland state secretary and  in Adelaide she read her 'Aboriginal Charter of Rights'
• 1964- first collection of poems" We are Going" was published by Jacaranda Press.
• 1968- attended a World Council of Churches consultation on racism in London changed her  political philosophy 
• 1970 -  supported FCAATSI(Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders ) constitution which  increased her  Indigenous power on the Federal Council.
• 1980 - return back to Stradbroke Island and  changed her name to Oodgeroo Noonuccal