Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, born Kath Ruska is a descendant of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an Aboriginal Australian best known for being an activist for aboriginal justice and rights during the 60's. Oodgeroo Noonuccal is still one of Australia's leading literally figures. (Oodgeroo Noonuccal story, 22. December 2014). Australia was a place of racism, The 1960's was a time of reform in Australia in relation to Aboriginal rights, the first Aboriginal vote was altered in 1962 in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. And the White Australia policy was dropped in 1965. (About racism, 2013). Oodgeroo Noonuccal Experienced the same racism as the Sapphires. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an advocate for reform in the 1960's, she made a difference through a lifetime of commitment to reform and poetry. Oodgeroo Noonuccal peom "we are gone" is a famous poem about aboriginal people being subjected to a new way of life. " We belong here, we are of the old ways. We are the corroboree and the bora ground, We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders."

Kath Ruska talks about the fact Aboriginal people had to give away their way of life and live the 'white way' the way of life Aboriginal people once knew is "gone and scattered". This peom explores the way the Indigenous nation is subjected to a loss of culture. The repetition of the word gone enforces the theme of loss.

In Peter Skrzynecki's peom "Migrant Hostel". Skrzynecki is talking about migrants, who also have lost their nature, home, etc. who feel a loss of Belonging to the life they only ever knew. Area of Study belonging emphasizes that the rubric is not about the concept of Belonging but the parts represented about Belonging. For Example how does this text represent belonging? The rubric talks about how belonging is represented, belonging is represented through people and places and what we associate with Belonging.