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Maureen Logan Maureen Logan i(A107499 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bundjalung
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1 y separately published work icon Elders Spinning Yarns : Aboriginal and Islander Elders from Northern NSW Share Their Stories Aboriginal Learning Circle (editor), Grace Gowan , Marie Delbridge , Daphne Kal-Ma-Kuta Dux , Dorothy Gordon , Thelma Jane James , Robert Bolt , Bertha Kapeen , Rosslyn Sten , Gwenda Nesta Williams , Athol Compton , Ruth Conlan , John Fonmosa , Ruth Green , Gary Kafoa , Maureen Logan , Michael Currie , Christine Morgan , Jim McDermott , Joyce McDermott , Gwen Taylor , Greta Vidler , Mick Ryan , Coffs Harbour : Aboriginal Learning Circle , 2014 9647817 2014 anthology life story
1 y separately published work icon Maureen Logan : On Discrimination at the Movies and in Shops on the New South Wales and Queensland Border in the 1950s Maureen Logan , Canberra : National Museum of Australia , 2009 Z1624586 2009 website life story
1 1 form y separately published work icon Susan's Birthday Party Maureen Logan (director), ( dir. Maureen Logan ) 2006 Z1404912 2006 single work film/TV

Susan is an Aboriginal girl with red curly hair and fair skin. She shows her Aboriginal story books, clap sticks and boomerangs to the class at school for show and tell. The other children don't believe she is Aboriginal until they are invited to her birthday party. Back at school after the party there is a common resolve to explore identity and harmony.

The story is told as a short video and is available on YouTube here.
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