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June Oscar June Oscar i(8813431 works by)
Born: Established: 1962 Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bunaba
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1 Women Charge for Change June Oscar , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 13 March no. 696 2019; (p. 24)

'This is an edited version of Bunuba woman and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar's speech at the No Woman Left Behind Conference in Darwin on International Women's Day.'
1 Resilience and Reconstruction June Oscar , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 60 2018; (p. 317-327)

'In April 2017, I became the first woman to be appointed to the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). I have made the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls a priority of... ' (Introduction)
1 16 y separately published work icon Jandamarra Steve Hawke , Mona Oscar (translator), Patsy Bedford (translator), Selina Middleton (translator), June Oscar (translator), Danny Marr (translator), Leederville : Prickly Pear Playscripts , 2008 Z1397771 2008 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

'Growing up just as the first pastoralists were cutting a swathe through his native lands, Jandamarra is one of Australia's great tragic heroes. Station child, angry young man, police tracker of his own people and finally inspirational leader of the most successful indigenous resistance against white settlement, his life was lived on the jagged edge of change and uncertainty. This story belongs the the Bunuba people of the Kimberley-but it speaks to everyone. (Source: Publisher)
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