Unaipon (Bangarra: 30 years of sixty five thousand)

Adelaide Festival Program | 2004

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Inventor, author, philosopher, visionary - Unaipon is Frances Rings’ monumental work about the man on the Australian $50 note.

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Born on a South Australian mission in the late 19th century, David Unaipon was a proud Ngarrindjeri man, a Christian, and a scholar of science and culture. Unaipon tells of his advocacy for better treatment of Aboriginal Australians, and his staunch belief that Indigenous and non-Indigenous people could coexist as equals, despite the incredible challenges he faced in his lifetime.