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Dr.
Anita Heiss
AM
Heiss in 2017
Born
Anita Marianne Heiss

1968 (age 55–56)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales, Western Sydney University
Occupation(s)Author, presenter, commentator
Years active2000–present

Anita Marianne Heiss AM (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees.

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Anita Heiss

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Anita Marianne Heiss AM (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous...

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Heiss

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Heiss may refer to: Anita Heiss (born 1968), contemporary Indigenous Australian author Carol Heiss (born 1940), American figure skater Christopher Elias...

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Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is a 2021 historical novel by Anita Heiss. Set around the time of Gundagai's flood of 1852, it concerns the life of a young...

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Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia

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In Australia is a 2018 biographical anthology compiled and edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc. It includes 52 short written pieces by Aboriginal...

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Indigenous Australian literature

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was to last until the mid to late 2010s. Wiradjuri writer and academic Anita Heiss has edited a collection of Aboriginal literature that spans from 1796...

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Western Sydney University

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Wright, was a UWS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2010. In 2011, author Anita Heiss was Adjunct Associate Professor at the university, attached to the Badanami...

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Miranda Tapsell

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biographical anthology Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia, edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc. In April 2020 Tapsell's memoir, Top End Girl...

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Gundagai

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population. The historical novel Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (2021) by Anita Heiss is set around the time of the flood, and depicts some of the Wiradjuri...

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Cowra breakout

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Schuster Australia, (ISBN 9781925184846): an historical fiction by Dr Anita Heiss based on an escapee who hid in the nearby Aboriginal mission until the...

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Magabala Books

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Indigenous authors have been published with Magabala Books, including Anita Heiss, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jimmy Pike, Alexis Wright, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jack...

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Tony Birch

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ISBN 9780980517972 Whisper Songs (University of Queensland Press, 2021) Anita Heiss (ed.), Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia, (Black Inc, 2018) ISBN 9781863959810...

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Elsie Heiss

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of six. One of her daughters is Aboriginal Australian author Anita Heiss. In 2003 Heiss was awarded the NAIDOC community award for her work in health...

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Wiradjuri

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son of Stan Grant Sr Stan Grant Sr, a Wiradjuri elder and linguist Anita Heiss contemporary novelist Brendan "Boon" Oldfield Former Boomanulla Raiders...

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Carol Heiss

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Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins (born January 20, 1940) is an American former figure skater and actress. Competing in ladies' singles, she became the 1960...

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The Chosen Vessel

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of Australian Literature edited by Nicholas Jose, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Anita Heiss, David McCooey, Peter Minter, Nicole Moore and Elizabeth Webby (2009)...

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Eatock v Bolt

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Aboriginal people involved in the case and called as witnesses were Anita Heiss, Bindi Cole, Geoff Clark, Larissa Behrendt, Leeanne Enoch, Wayne Atkinson...

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Adam Goodes

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New York City and East Africa. Goodes was one of the contributors to Anita Heiss' 2018 biographical anthology Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia. His...

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Celeste Liddle

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2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017. Growing up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss. 6 November 2017. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved...

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List of Indigenous Australian writers

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activist, writer, artist Jane Harrison – playwright Ruth Hegarty – writer Anita Heiss – novelist, poet and children's author Kate Howarth – writer, memoirist...

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List of University of New South Wales alumni

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Retrieved 20 June 2017.[self-published source?] Heiss, Anita. "Welcome to Anita Heiss online!". Anita Heiss. Retrieved 12 February 2014.[self-published source...

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Australian Aboriginal culture

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Scott, Alexis Wright, Kate Howarth, Tara June Winch, Yvette Holt and Anita Heiss. Indigenous authors who have won Australia's Miles Franklin Award include...

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Indigenous Australians

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comedy writer Nakkiah Lui; in poetry Yvette Holt; and in popular fiction Anita Heiss. Leading activists Marcia Langton, who wrote First Australians (2008)...

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Growing Up Asian in Australia

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Australia (2021) Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (2018), edited by Anita Heiss Growing up Queer in Australia (2019), edited by Benjamin Law Growing...

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Postcolonial literature

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Howarth, Tara June Winch, in poetry Yvette Holt and in popular fiction Anita Heiss. Indigenous authors who have won Australia's high prestige Miles Franklin...

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Alice Eather

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out of Arnhem Land". ABC News. "Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss | Black Inc". 13 January 2020. Archived from the original on 13 January...

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List of Australian poets

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Hathorn (born 1943 in poetry)Libby Hathorn James Hebblethwaite (1857–1921) Anita Heiss (born 1968) Jill Hellyer (1925–2012), founding member of the Australian...

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