Kath Walker

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• 1941_Joinēd the Australian Women's Army Service
• 1958_ joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
• 1960_activist and public speaker
• 1962_becoming the first Queensland state secretary
• 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

personal achievements

 she was a poet, activist and public speaker.she articulated the feelings of Aboriginal people īn all Australia in special way.
Kathleen Ruska had grown up with her family on North Stradbroke Island and had worked as a domestic through the Depression.
she  Joined the Australian Women's Army Service.she became well known as an Aboriginal spokesperson.
she joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
 She rejected the coalition politics she had previously espoused,
 arguing instead for Aboriginal people to become a unified and solid fighting force before they entered into coalitions with whites.
. She worked for a treaty between Black and White Australians and, until her death,
she was engaged in activities to right injustice from the community level of Stradbroke Island to the national level.
She believed passionately in the power of education to reform an unjust world.