Body-Landguage: Linguistic inhabitation of land in the poetry of Judith Wright and Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal

This paper was performed at a European Australian Studies Conference in Copenhagen (Ocotober 1995) and included the reading of a number of poems (in entirety) that cannot be given word-space here, and quite obviously cannot in print, carry the qualities of that performance, but the 'word of warning' issued at the conference stands as a political statement as much now as then. That warning went/goes like this: