Fair Skin Black Fella Ubby's a goanna running

a goanna running

Neither honoured as a returned soldier or offered government support afforded to non-Indigenous servicemen

2015 black&write

It restores us to a wisdom that is at once powerful and fresh

The stories were recorded in the bed of the Fitzroy River in 1989-1990

Fair Skin Black Fella Ubby's a goanna runningThe story of Mary, a young girl who lives on a dusty cattle station. When she is shunned by the other girls because of her fair skin, Old Ned, one of the community Elders, speaks up for her. With words of wisdom, he teaches the girls that Aboriginal identity transcends skin colour and that family, community, country, and culture is what being Aboriginal is really about.