Faith
Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist
Marilyn Lake(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-86508-841-9 (ISBN)
Description
Faith Bandler is one of Australia's best-loved and most widely respected citizens. This is the story of her extraordinary life, her journey from a childhood nurtured in a South Sea Islander community in northern New South Wales, to national recognition as one of Australia's leading human rights activists. Drawing on Faith's own vivid recollections, as well as extensive research in the archives, Marilyn Lake provides a lively biographical account which both captures the warmth of the woman - her sharp intelligence, her generosity, her calm, her stamina, her eloquence, her ability to have "a bloody good time" - and the challenge of her political commitment. As a leader of campaigns for Aboriginal rights and against racial discrimination, Faith Bandler emerged as an unlikely but compelling public figure - a politically effective woman in a public culture dominated by men, a politician outside parliament and a black leader in a nation dedicated for most of her life to the ideal of "White Australia".
The success of the 1967 referendum to afford full citizenship rights to Aboriginal Australians was a tribute to her leadership and influence - to this day, of more than 40 attempts to change the Constitution by referendum, only eight have succeeded. Eloquent and elegant, Faith Bandler became that rare phenomenon in Australia: a charismatic public person. Her exemplary courage in fighting for an end to racism and her capacity for moral leadership have perhaps never been more relevant.
The success of the 1967 referendum to afford full citizenship rights to Aboriginal Australians was a tribute to her leadership and influence - to this day, of more than 40 attempts to change the Constitution by referendum, only eight have succeeded. Eloquent and elegant, Faith Bandler became that rare phenomenon in Australia: a charismatic public person. Her exemplary courage in fighting for an end to racism and her capacity for moral leadership have perhaps never been more relevant.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86508-841-9 (9781865088419)
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Person
Marilyn Lake is a leading historian of twentieth century Australia, author of numerous books, chapters and articles and co-author of Creating a Nation, which won the Human Rights Medal for non-fiction in 1994. She is Australia's leading authority on the political history of women, having published numerous accounts of women's activism and authoring the first history of Australian feminism, Getting Equal: The History of Feminism in Australia. A regular media commentator on gender, politics and history, Marilyn Lake's work on citizenship, nationalism and gender has been widely acclaimed internationally and included in several anthologies published in the United States and Britain. She currently holds the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University.