Achievements

 1958 - joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

1960 - attended the annual conferences for the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement

1970 - supported Pittock amendments to FCAATSI constitution which would have increased Indigenous power on the Federal Council

1985 - Oodgeroo appeared with her grandson, Denis Walker junior in Bruce Beresford’s film The Fringedwellers

Turning points

 Oodgeroo’s priorities in the 1970s and1980s changed when she returned to her beloved Stradbroke Island. She focused on art (her writing as well as the visual arts) and education.

Oodgeroo believed passionately in the power of education to change an unjust world.





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