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Aileen Walsh Aileen Walsh i(13539139 works by) (a.k.a. Aileen Marwung Walsh)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Pila Nguru ; Aboriginal Noongar / Nyoongar / Nyoongah / Nyungar / Nyungah/Noonygar
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1 Writing for Role-Playing Aileen Walsh , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 67 no. 1 2022; (p. 83-87)
1 White Blankets I and II i "White blankets", Aileen Walsh , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 65 no. 1 2020; (p. 178-180) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 213)
1 Tell Me Why Review : Archie Roach’s Pain Is the Pain of All of Us Aileen Walsh , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 January 2020;

'Singer songwriter Archie Roach’s new autobiography Tell Me Why, is a grim portrayal of his life of suffering at the hands of 20th century white Australia.' (Introduction)
1 Friday Essay : Back to Moore River and Finding Family Aileen Walsh , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 December 2018;

'Untangling the web that is the history of the stolen generations is a very satisfying process. In October, I went to the Centenary Memorial gathering at Mogumber, on the site of the Moore River Native Settlement, about 130 km north of Perth.'  (Introduction)
1 My Childhood Aileen Walsh , 2018 single work life story
— Appears in: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia 2018; (p. 249-253)

'I'm not Aboriginal, I'm Hawaiian.' I said this when I was at school in Roleystone. I had got sick of the other kids giving me a hard time about being Aboriginal. I also got asked questions such as, 'Why did the Aboriginal peoples give up so easily?' My answer was that Aboriginal people were non-violent and so that's why. It was odd growing up in Roleystone. It was very isolated, and we lived on a huge block surrounded by miles of bush, with a few houses dotted here and there. We moved there when I was four. I don't have many happy memories of Roleystone. Mum was one of the Stolen Generations and was an alcoholic; Dad was a policeman and when he wasn't at work he was being a strict disciplinarian - he had an Irish Catholic background, very working-class, but with aspiration to be richer than his parents.' (Introduction)
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