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Ruth Latukefu Ruth Latukefu i(A78134 works by) (birth name: Ruth Fink) (a.k.a. Ruth A. Latukefu; Ruth Fink Latukefu; Ruth A Fink)
Also writes as: Ruth A Fink
Born: Established: 1931
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1939
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1 [Review Essay] Wadjelas : The Memoirs of a 1950's Patrol Officer Ruth Latukefu , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2010; (p. 134-136)
— Review of Wadjelas : The Memoirs of a 1950's Patrol Officer Adrian Day , 2010 single work autobiography

'The contemporary Australian history and culture wars resurfaced in February in the pages of the Weekend Australian and the Monthly. From his own publishing house, the Macleay Press, Keith Windschuttle issued his Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Volume Three), renewing his attack on the concept of the Stolen Generations and on the so-called black armband view of history. In the context of that debate, Adrian Day’s memoir has a special resonance.'  (Introduction)
1 Campus, Garden, Nation Ruth Latukefu , 2003 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 62 no. 3 2003; (p. 68-81) Ruth Fink Latukefu recalls PNG in the 1960s and her years teaching at the university with her husband Sione Latukefu.
1 Recollections of Brewarrina Aboriginal Mission Ruth Latukefu , 1979 single work life story
— Appears in: Aboriginal Support Group : Manly Warringah Pittwater 1979; Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2014; (p. 72-87) 'In 2013 I revisited Brewarrina Aboriginal Mission after nearly 60 years. This paper describes what life was like for Aboriginal people living on the mission during my fieldwork in 1954. Information from Aboriginal informants at that time is supplemented by Jimmie Barker, whose memoir records 20 years as handyman on the mission (1920-42). There was historical continuity in racist attitudes, fears of child removal, suppression of languages and culture, inadequate schooling and authoritarian controls by the managers of the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board. People felt ashamed to be seen by white people doing anything traditionally Aboriginal, and skin colour and Aboriginal features were socially stigmatised. Apart from its cemetery, Brewarrina Mission, established in 1897, was closed in 1965 and later demolished.' (Abstract)
1 Two Views Ruth Latukefu , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 22 no. 1 1962; (p. 55-56)
— Review of Grief, Gaiety and Aborigines W. E. Harney , 1961 single work autobiography
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